Staff Profiles: Music Business, Musicology and Technology

Dr Claudio Chipendo

Position: Chairperson

Research Interests:
    African Music and Dance

Dr R. Muranda

Position: Senior Lecturer

Research Interests:

    Collecting and recording children’s traditional songs. Digital music production in the 21st century. Exploring preservation of ethnic musical traditions through digital technology. Instrumental performance of mbira and western musical instruments. Live sound reinforcement techniques. Music and internet resources for music instruction. Performative music technologies. Recording, mixing, and mastering music. Transcription of traditional African music using notation software packages. Virtual teaching and learning resources in the 21st century.

Dr. Wonder Maguraushe

Position: Senior Lecturer

Research Interests:

    Applied Ethnomusicology, Popular Music, Music performance, Marimba performance Music Technology Music Education

Mr Absolom Mutavati

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests

    Music recording, Mixing and Mastering, Live sound reinforcement, Microphone techniques, Sound acoustics, Studio designs.

Mr. Isaac Machafa

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests:
    Ethnomusicology, Anthropology

Ms Vimbai Chamisa

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests:
    Popular music, Applied Ethnomusicology, Historical musicology

Mrs Tendai Shoko

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests:
    Music education, music performance

Mr Paul Dumisani Bajilla

Position: Assistant Lecturer

Research Interest:
    Musicology with a thrust in Music Composition (Theory) and performance of African Indigenous research-based compositions; Classical music focussing on Orchestration, Conducting and clinical workshops in choral music performance studies. Film Music and sound tracking.