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		+	Avril Kinsey. 2009. 'Music for classical guitar by South African composers'. Unpublished Masters thesis. [[University of Cape Town]].

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 == Biography ==
-Born Hendrik Pienaar Hofmeyr in Cape Town.
+Born Hendrik Pienaar Hofmeyr in Cape Town. He was educated at Nassau High school where he matriculated in 1975 as one of the top 3 students in the Cape Province.
 ==Training==

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	His ''Incantesimo'' was chosen to represent South Africa at the Congress of the International Society of Contemporary Music in Croatia in 2005, and in 2008 he was honored with a [[Kanna Award]] by the [[Klein Karoo National Arts Festival]]. He received the [[UCT]] Creative Arts Award for his ''Second Symphony – The Elements'' in 2018.		His ''Incantesimo'' was chosen to represent South Africa at the Congress of the International Society of Contemporary Music in Croatia in 2005, and in 2008 he was honored with a [[Kanna Award]] by the [[Klein Karoo National Arts Festival]]. He received the [[UCT]] Creative Arts Award for his ''Second Symphony – The Elements'' in 2018.
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		+	Hofmeyr was awarded the prestigious triennial Hubert Rupert Prize for Classical Music in 2025 by the South African Academy of Science and Art for his contribution to music.

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 ==Career==
-He lived in Italy from 1981–92, and returned to South Africa in 1992, to teach at the [[University of Stellenbosch]] and later at the [[University of Cape Town]], becoming Professor and Head of Composition and Theory until his retirement at the end of 2022.
+He lived in Italy from 1981–92, and returned to South Africa in 1992, to teach at the [[University of Stellenbosch]] and from 1998 at the [[University of Cape Town]], becoming Professor and Head of Composition and Theory until his retirement at the end of 2022.
 == Contribution to South African Theatre, Film, Media and Performance ==

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 In 1987, he won the South African Opera Competition with ''[[The Fall of the House of Usher]]''. He also received the annual [[Nederburg Prize for Opera]] for this work, subsequent to its production at the [[State Theatre]] in Pretoria in 1988. In the same year, he obtained first prize in the TrentoCinema - La colonna sonora International Competition in Trent, Italy, with a work for chamber orchestra, composed for a short film by Wim Wenders.
 In 1997 he won two major international competitions, the Queen Elisabeth Competition of Belgium (with Raptus for violin and orchestra) and the first edition of the Dimitris Mitropoulos Competition in Athens (with Byzantium for soprano and orchestra).
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 * ''[[The Fall of the House of Usher]]'' (1987), a chamber opera with a libretto by the composer, after Edgar Allan Poe.
 * ''[[Vala - A Metaphysical Ballet]]'' (scenario by the composer, after William Blake, 1989)
-* ''[[The Land of Heart’s Desire]]'' (1989/1990), a one-act chamber opera in 1 act, with a libretto by the composer, after William Butler Yeats.
+* ''[[The Land of Heart’s Desire]]'' (1989/1990, revised 2010), a one-act chamber opera, with a libretto by the composer, after William Butler Yeats.
 * ''[[Alice]]'' (3 act ballet, scenario by the composer, after Lewis Carroll, 1990-91)
 * ''[[Lumukanda]]'' (1995),  an opera in 3 acts, with libretto by the composer based on text by [[Credo Mutwa]]

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 Born Hendrik Pienaar Hofmeyr in Cape Town.
 After completing a BMus in musicology as well as MMus in piano (under Laura Searle) ([[University of Cape Town]], 1976–81), he continued his studies in Italy. He completed the ''corso superiore'' in piano at the Florence Conservatory where he was a student of Alessandro Specchi and in composition under Ivan Vandor at the Bologna conservatory, where he twice won the composition prize.
 He returned to South Africa in 1992, to teach at the [[University of Stellenbosch]] and later at the [[University of Cape Town]], becoming Professor and Head of Composition and Theory.
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 == Contribution to South African Theatre, Film, Media and Performance ==
-Besides his numerous longer works, chamber pieces, musical renderings of poems and other writings, Hofmeyr has written music for a Wim Wenders film, and by 2012 had composed music for 2 ballets and 6 operas - three of the operas based on South African texts. His works include:
+Besides his numerous longer works, chamber pieces, musical renderings of poems and other writings, Hofmeyr has written music for a Wim Wenders film, and by 2012 had composed music for ballets and operas - three of the operas based on South African texts. His works include:
 * ''[[Il principe Barbablù]]'' ("''Bluebeard''", 1986), a chamber opera in 1 act, with libretto by the composer. Premiered at the Stia Music Festival, Italy.
-* ''[[The Fall of the House of Usher]]'' (1987), a chamber opera with a libretto by the composer, after Edgar Allan Poe, for which he won the Nederburg Opera Prize that year.
+* ''[[The Fall of the House of Usher]]'' (1987), a chamber opera with a libretto by the composer, after Edgar Allan Poe.
 * ''[[The Land of Heart’s Desire]]'' (1989/1990), a one-act chamber opera in 1 act, with a libretto by the composer, after William Butler Yeats.
 * ''[[Lumukanda]]'' (1995),  an opera in 3 acts, with libretto by the composer based on text by [[Credo Mutwa]]
 * ''[[Die Laaste Aand]]'' (2001), a chamber opera in 1 act, with a libretto by the composer based on the text by ([[C. Louis Leipoldt]])
 * ''[[Saartjie]]'' (2010), a 20 minute opera with a libretto by Hofmeyr himself. The opera was expanded into a full-length opera in 2022 as ''[[Sara Baartman]]'' with a libretto by [[Fiona Zerbst]].
 == Sources ==