Associate Professor Anri Herbst, BMus(Hons) UFS MMus DPhil Stell UPLM
Music Education

Anri Herbst is an Associate Professor at the South African College of Music, University of Cape Town. As a DAAD scholarship holder, she studied at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Stuttgart, researching the topic of aural training for musicians within a music psychological framework for her PhD (1993). Her research interests lie in the fields of music psychology, intercultural musicology and neuromusicology.

She is not only the section head for music education, but is also in charge of research at the South African College of Music, University of Cape Town. She has been supervising numerous Honours, Master’s and PhD students. She is active as researcher and has been involved in several research projects. She acted as co-project leader with the main project leader, Prof. Meki Nzewi (University of Pretoria), in a nation-wide project to document and research the music that children in South Africa create (2004-2006). A book publication is planned for 2008. She is also involved as co-project leader with Prof. Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph in a three-year project to research the overtone singing practices of the Nqgoko women of Lady Frere from socio-cultural, physical and acoustical perspectives (2007-2009). She is currently involved in research on intonation of isicathamiya groups and collaborates with Dr Sven Ahlbäck from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm Sweden on a comparative study on the intonation of indigenous Zulu music and indigenous Swedish music.

Together with Meki Nzewi and Kofi Agawu she edited Musical arts in Africa: theory, practice and education and produced its accompanying CD and video (Unisa Press, 2003). She also launched the UCT-based peer-reviewed Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa (African Minds, 2004) and edited Emerging solutions for musical arts education in South Africa (African Minds, 2005). Apart from publishing several articles in accredited peer-reviewed journals, Anri Herbst has also been commissioned to write chapters in forthcoming books. She also regularly reads papers at international conferences and has been serving on several executive committees and editorial boards nationally and internationally. As the Director of Resource Material and Research she played an important role in the Pan African Society of Musical Arts Education (Pasmae). Since 2004 she has been a guest lecturer at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Sweden. Whenever she can, she sleeps.

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