Bokani Dyer
Bokani Dyer (born January 21, 1986 in Gaborone ) is a Botswana-South African jazz musician ( piano , composition ).
Live and act
Dyer, whose father Steve Dyer lived in exile as a South African saxophonist in Botswana , grew up there, in Zimbabwe and, since 1993, in South Africa . He received piano lessons at the age of 14 and then studied in the jazz program of the University of Cape Town until 2008 ; he graduated with honors. As a student he founded the Soul Housing Project with the singer Sakhile Moleshe , which opened the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown in 2016 and performed at the Lighthouse Festival in Croatia that same year .
In 2014 he toured Switzerland with Mats Spillmann, Donat Fisch , Stephan Kurmann and Norbert Pfammatter . He also opened the London Jazz Festival in 2015 ; in the same year he performed at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival . In the following year he presented his trio at the Jazzahead in Bremen.
Prizes and awards
With a scholarship that Dyer won in the competition for the SAMRO Overseas Scholarship , he studied with Jason Moran in New York in 2009 . In 2011 he was awarded the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Jazz .
Discographic notes
- Emancipate the Story (Dyertribe Music, 2011)
- World Music (2016, with Robin Fassie-Kock, Buddy Wells , Justin Bellairs, Shane Cooper )
- Neo Native (2018, with Romy Brauteseth and Sphelelo Mazibuko and Asmaa Hamzaoui)
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dyer, Bokani |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Botswana-South African jazz musician (piano, composition) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 21, 1986 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gaborone |