South African College of Music
The South African College of Music (SACM) is a department of the University of Cape Town . Its location is a sub-campus of the university in Rondebosch, a suburb of Cape Town .
history
The South African College of Music was founded by a few musicians under the direction of Apolline Niay-Darroll and opened in 1910 with six students. In 1912 William Henry Bell became director and in 1914 the SACM was able to move into a larger building. In 1920 Bell became professor at the University of Cape Town and the SACM was incorporated into the Faculty of Humanities in 1923 .
courses
The South African College of Music offers courses in classical orchestral instruments , piano , organ , singing , jazz , African music , composition and musicology . All students play in at least one of the institute's ensembles, which include orchestras for strings and wind instruments , a jazz band, a percussion group , a musical ensemble , a big band , a choir and the symphony orchestra . The vocal students in the opera class give regular performances.
Postgraduate courses are offered in ethnomusicology , African music, jazz, musicology and musical composition , among others .
The Strubenholm Institute building
Strubenholm in Rosebank, until then Henry Struben's private home, has been the seat of the SACM since 1925. There is also the famous Kirby Collection with African, European and Asian musical instruments .
Two new extensions were built in 1972. This includes the Chisholm Recital room with 160 seats, the Fiasconaro Opera Studio, almost a hundred teaching and practice rooms and the WH Bell Music Library . There are also recording studios , special studios for electronic music and a laboratory for ear training .
The concert hall in the adjacent Baxter Theater has 638 seats and has had an outstanding Beckerath organ since 1977 .