05/03/2023
Proseguiamo con la giuria de Il Garda in Coro - Choral Competition for Children's & Youth Choirs 7° concorso corale internazionale.
Johann van der Sandt received his formal undergraduate and post-graduate education at the University of Pretoria. He also furthered his studies in Choral Conducting in the Netherlands at the Institute of Choral Conductors training, Gorinchem (the Netherlands). He has been involved in choral work as a composer, conductor, arranger and adjudicator on national as well as international level throughout his career. In his capacity as adjudicator, conductor and lecturer, he is well sought after. Johann has conducted numerous choirs; his experience stretches wide, from working with Children’s Choirs to Youth Choirs, student’s choirs and Adult choirs. His adult Chamber choir Singkronies specifically aimed at the recording, development and preservation of South African. His work with the University of Pretoria Camerata (a mixed student’s choir) is characterized by numerous accolades. Under his leadership, the Drakensberg Boys choir established itself as one of the best boys choir internationally. Currently Johann is professor, I level, in Music Education at the University of Bolzano, Italy. Before that, he was professor in Choral Conducting at the University of Pretoria and served as the conductor and the Director of Music at the Drakensberg Boys Choir School, South Africa. He conducts the Brummnet Male Choir, the South Tyrol National Youth Choir, the unibzVoices (official ensemble of the University of Bozen) and is director of Lasido (an association for the musical education of children with singing as vehicle).
