Cara Stacey
Cara L. Stacey (* around 1987 ) is a South African musicologist and musician (piano, mouth arch ( Umrhubhe , Uhadi, Makhweyane), composition ).
Live and act
Stacey took classical piano lessons; then she studied various African instruments (Makhweyane, Mbira , uhadi, Umrhubhe and Kadongo ) with Dizu Plaatjies, Khokhiwe Mphila, Bhemani Magagula, Tinashe Chidanyika, Modou Diouf and Andrew Cooke. As a musicologist, she dealt in particular with the Makhweyane music arc by eSwatini , on which she did her doctorate in 2017 at the University of Cape Town with Sylvia Bruinders. Before that, in 2009 she completed a master's degree in musicology at the University of Edinburgh (with Simon Frith) and a master's degree in interpreting at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.
As an interpreter on the piano and the South African musical arcs, she performs solo programs. She also worked with percussionist and drummer Sarathy Korwar in the Duo Pergola and is a member of the Night Light Collective and Inclement Quartet . Her debut album Things That Grow deals with the possibilities of the mouth arch. Her latest album, Ceder , is a duo project with the Peruvian flautist and composer Camilo Ángeles.
Stacey is currently researching in the project Recentring Afro-Asia: Musical and Human Migrations in the Precolonial Period 700–1500 AD . She is a board member of the South African Society for Research in Music and is on the International Council for Traditional Music Country Liaison Office of the Kingdom of eSwatini.
Discographic notes
- Things That Grow (Kit Records 2015, with Shabaka Hutchings , Seb Rochford , Ruth Goller, Crewdson , Dan Leavers)
- Cara Stacey & Camilo Ángeles Ceder (Kit Records 2017)
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stacey, Cara |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stacey, Cara L. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African musicologist and musician (piano, mouth bow, composition) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1987 |