Peter Klatzow
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Peter Klatzow
==Biography==Peter Klatzow was born in Springs, Transvaal, in 1945.
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Training
He studied in England, Italy and France (with Nadia Boulanger).
Career
He returned to South Africa in 1966, worked at the SABC, and began teaching at the University of Cape Town in 1973 where he was appointed Director of the South African College of Music in 2007.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
=As composer
He composed the music for:
- the short opera, Words from a Broken String, to a libretto by Michael Williams (2010).
- Tintinyane, with text based on Corlia Fourie's Die meisie wat soos ’n bottervoël sing.
- Veronica Paeper's ballet Drie Diere ("Three Animals")
=As director
1983: The Beggar's Opera (co-dircetro with Mavis Taylor for UCT Opera School and UCT Drama Department)
Sources
Denis-Constant Martin. 2013. Sounding the Cape Music, Identity and Politics in South Africa. African Minds.
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