About Khanyi:
Khanyisile Mthetwa has recently been named by the leading South African newspaper, Mail and Guardian, as one the top 200 young South Africans for 2019. Khanyisile is the
2019 winner of the Myrna Brown International Scholarship awarded by the National Flute Association of America. She will be travelling to Salt Lake City-Utah in August to perform a concert of South African works at the 47th Annual Convention.
In 2018 she won a Standard Bank Ovation Award at the National Arts Festival with pianist Peter Cartwright. She was the winner of both virtuoso classical and jazz categories at the Unisa competition and was awarded the overall winner and Unisa foundation prize. She has played as a soloist with Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Kwazulu Natal Philharmonic Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra of South Africa. She is currently the principal flute of the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra.
Khanyisile was born in Orlando West, in the town of Soweto. She attended high school at the National School of the Arts. She went on to study at the University of Pretoria, and finished her Masters at Nice Conservatoire in France. In 2017 she became a fellow of Trinity College of London for Flute Performance.
Khanyisile was appointed as the flute lecturer at Wits University in 2017. She has served on the jury of the National Youth Orchestra Competition in 2018 and is considered one of the leading performers and experts of flute performance in South Africa. Her recordings can be regularly heard on Classic FM.
About the concert:
Khanyisile will perform a piece by South African composer, Hendrik Hofmeyr. She will also perform Giancarlo Aquilanti's Sonata for Flute and Piano, accompanied by Maestro Aquilanti himself. The recital will be followed by a reception, all are welcome.