UNIVERSUM

  • Text by: Antjie Krog

  • Composer: Antoni Schonken

  • Musical Director and Conductor: Pieter Bezuidenhout

  • Choir: Horizons Project Choir

  • Soloist: Steffie le Roux

  • Musicians: Mareli Stolp, Petrus Meyer, Magda de Vries

  • Recordings: Dawid de Villiers, Antoni Schonken

  • Producers and Production Managers: Vektor Productions

  • Album Artwork: Amy van der Walt

LAUNCH DATE: 7 October 2022

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Copyright of all images belong to Vektor Productions.

PRISMATICA

  • Performing Artist: Laura Pauna

  • Composers: Rexleigh Bunyard | Martin Watt | Bongani Ndodana-Breen | Pieter Bezuidenhout | Timon Wapenaar | Conrad Asman | Matthew Pratt | Christo Jankowitz | Zander Fick | Hendrik Hofmeyr

LAUNCH DATE: 31 May 2022

 

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Below are some of the images that were taken for the promotion and design of the album cover. Photos by Pierre van Vuuren. Copyright of all images belong to Vektor Productions.

AULA

  • Featuring Artists: Visser Liebenberg, Tertia Visser-Downie, Nicholas Haralambous, Horizons Project Choir, Jessica Ng, Ching Man Ho Judy, Magdalene Minnaar, Maryke Johnson

 

  • Composer: Pieter Bezuidenhout

LAUNCH DATE: 7 October 2021

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Below are some of the images that were taken for the promotion and design of the album cover. Photos by Pierre van Vuuren. Copyright of all images belong to Vektor Productions.

KORNANA [Choral Music]

  • Artist: The Vox Collective

  • Pianist: Laura Pauna

  • Composer: Pieter Bezuidenhout

LAUNCH DATE: 10 September 2021

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Below are some of the portrait images that were taken with for the promotion and design of the album cover. Photos by Pierre van Vuuren. Copyright of all images belong to The Vox Collective.

INKONDLO [Choral Traditional Music]

  • Artist: Horizons Project Choir

  • Percussionist: Mpume Manyathi

  • Composers on album: Mzwandile Mabuza

LAUNCH DATE: 16 June 2021

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Below are some of the portrait images that were taken with for the launch of the album by the talented Pierre van Vuuren. Copyright of all images belong to Horizons Project Choir.

BEHIND THE SCENES

The production behind the album artwork was a layered process. Firstly, the choir was used to create the arms emerging from grass. This was photographed and edited by Pierre van Vurren. Thereafter the selected photo was printed on canvas and given to artist, Bianca Viljoen, where she added her interpretation of identity to the photograph, with oil paint as medium. The artwork was exhibited at the Origins Concert in Dec 2020. The final layer of the process was to have the canvas photographed again where after the final album artwork was produced.

ORIGINS [Choral Music]

  • Artist: Horizons Project Choir

  • Pianists: Faye Prinsloo, Gisela Scriba and Tessa Olivier

  • Composers on album: Pieter Bezuidenhout, Antonie Schonken and Mpumelelo Manyathi

LAUNCH DATE: 1 February 2021

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[Origin: Something that creates, causes, or gives rise to another] 

The origins of South Africa’s cultural landscape is vast and varied, and so much more the identities that are connected to these cultures. Though cultural identity is the identity of belonging to a specific group, in a multicultural nation like South Africa, their individual existence can truly only be understood together. Identity is a constantly evolving phenomenon; the meeting point where cultures cross and influence each other. It is only in allowing this process to occur, that cultural identities stand the test of time.

The Horizons Project Choir invites you to come and explore various South African cultural identities through the lens of their languages, their practices and their individual identities. This album explores the idea of identity and the way that it evolves from its origin.

AS DIE MAAN ONS SLEG BETRAP

 

As die maan ons sleg betrap is a drama commissioned by Vektor Productions,

written by Elme Ravenscroft and Kornel Korb.  This drama is still in production and will be on stage at the end of 2021.