Agnus Dei

Description

Hendrik Hofmeyr was born in Cape Town in 1957. His first major success as a composer came in 1988 with the performance at the State Theatre of The Fall of the House of Usher, which won the South African Opera Competition and was also awarded the Nederburg Opera Prize. In 1992 he accepted a post as lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch, and in 1997 won two further international competitions, the Queen Elisabeth Competition of Belgium (with Raptus for violin and orchestra) and the Dimitri Mitropoulos Competition in Athens (with Byzantium for high voice and orchestra). Hofmeyr is currently professor and Head of Composition and Music Theory at the University of Cape Town. Hofmeyr’s oeuvre comprises six operas, two ballets, two symphonies, thirteen concerti and numerous vocal and instrumental works, and includes some 130 commission works.