Violist and Composer Nokuthula Ngwenyama
has a website at www.ngwenyama.com
and is featured at AfriClassical.com
NewsDay
INTERNATIONALLY acclaimed [violist], Nokuthula Ngwenyama said she was
delighted to headline the ninth edition of Bulawayo Music Festival,
having last performed in the country 12 years ago.
BY SINDISO DUBE
Ngwenyama performed at the opening and closing day of the five-day
festival — which is meant to celebrate classical western music — that
ended on Sunday night at the Zimbabwe Academy of Music.
“I last performed here (Zimbabwe) in 2004 and it is something I had missed over the years,” she said.
“It is a pleasure to finally come back, and I have enjoyed the
festival. The reception has been greater than I expected considering
that this is more of a foreign culture for Africa.”
At the festival, she shared the stage with other international acts
among them German cello player, Theo Bross, United Kingdom-based
pianists, Coady Green, Leslie Howard and Christopher Smith and the Odein
String Quartet from South Africa and local imbube outfit, Impumelelo
Shining Stars.
She is set to perform in Durban, South Africa on July 1 before
gracing the North Carolina Mammoth Lake Music Festival later this year.
Ngwenyama, who has been in the music industry for more than 20 years,
has performed across Europe, America and Asia, with her most memorable
show being at the White House, having been invited by former US
President Bill Clinton.
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