MILESTONES
& ACHIEVEMENTS TO DATE |
1985 |
Foundation
of Southern Transvaal Youth Choir by Mr J J le Roux, superintendent of
Transvaal Education. |
1986 |
First performance
in Alberton Civic Centre with Hannalie v/d Merwe as conductor, Christian
le Roux as accompanist and Gawie Stoltz as organiser. |
1986/87 |
Performed
in State Theatre Pretoria and at SABC. Tour to Free State and Eastern
Cape. |
1989 |
Workshop
in Namibia. Performance with Drakensberg Boy's Choir. |
1993 |
Tour to
Far East: Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore. |
1994 |
Tour to
Durban. Major Youth Choir Festival in Kempton Park with 9 choirs participating. |
1995 |
Tour to
Amanzimtoti. Make recordings for church services at SABC. Participate
in opening ceremony of Africa Gymnastic Games. Performed as demonstration
choir with an international conductor during a workshop |
1996 |
Tour to
Europe. Attains overall 3rd place in Vienna at 25th international Music
Festival. Wins trophy for most promising Youth Choir. TV recordings for
Christmas programme with Drakensberg Boy's Choir. First CD released. |
1997 |
Tour to
Namibia. Henk Barnard appointed as choirmaster. Inception of Colla Voce
Choir. |
1998 |
Performances
with East Rand, West Rand and North West Youth Choirs. |
1999 |
Tour to
Cape. Performed at annual Klein Karoo Kunstefees, received standing ovations.
Second CD released. |
2000 |
Tour to
Far East: Malaysia and Thailand. Standing ovations at each performance. |
2001 |
Tour to
Mpumalanga. Performed in Bloemfontein with Bloemfontein Children's Choir. |
2002 |
Tour to
Swaziland, Sabie and Badplaas. Performances with Drakensberg Boy's Choir
and RAU Choir. TV Appearance. Third CD released. |
2003 |
Tour to
Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Czeck Republic, Austria, Greece. Standing ovations
at all concerts. Performance with Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir. Fourth
CD released. MMINO's Music Achiever of the Year Award was awarded to Peter
Guy from Bloemfontein, and the Music Developer of the Year Award was awarded
to Brian Thusi from Umlazi, KZN. |
2004 |
Tour
to Nelspruit. Performance at Linder Auditorium with Tucson Arizona Boy's
Choir, U.S.A. Tour to Cape. Performed in Grootte Kerk on Easter Sunday.
Received
standing ovation at performance with Pro Cantu and Tygerberg
Children’s Choir. A very successfull performance at the Rosebank
Union Church with the Welsch Male Voice Choir, RAU choir and the Catamus
Corde choir conducted by Prof. Petru Gräbe. A great performance in
Sasolburg at the Etienne Rousseau Theatre with choirs from the local schools. |
2005 |
Performance at Linder Auditorium with East Rand Youth Choir, East Rand
Children's Choir and Cantare Children's Choir. A very successfull
tour to KwaZulu-Natal.
Performed as guest choir with Coenie de Villiers at Alberton to celebrate
the 75th birthday of the ATKV. Performed with Jannie Moolman at the Randhart
Choir Festival. The performance in Vanderbijlpark infront of 1000 in the
congregation was an experience. The choir year ended with another highlight
when we performed with the Ekurhuleni Youth Choir and a visiting choir
from Belguim. |
2006 |
Performance at Linder Auditorium with Navy Redd and other local choirs. A very successful tour to the Eastern Cape. Participated in the Canta Tuks Choir Competition. Celebrated our 20 years of existence with previous conductor, Hannelie van der Merwe, who specially travelled from London for the event, as well as with more than 100 past choir and committee members. Released our 5th CD, "Full Marks 20/20" a commemorative collection consisting of 20 works from the repertoires of the years 1999 - 2006. |
| 2007 | Competed in the 25th International Choral Competition of Sacred Music in Praveza, Greece on 7 July 2007 and received the highest award of all the youth choirs that competed! |