Degrees Held
- BMus (UCT)
- MMus (Rhodes)
- MSM (SMU)
- MTh (UKZN)
- PhD (UCT)
- FTCL (Trinity College, London)
Research interests
- Anglican hymnody in South Africa
- Localisation of church music in South African communities
- Multiculturalism and multiligualism in Anglican congregations
- Ritualism and its rise in South Africa in the late nineteenth century
Teaching Interests
- Music theory
- Musical compositions
- Choral studies
- Anglican worship and history
SelectedPublications and Creative Output
Books
Chapters in Books
Journal Articles
Books
- Celebrating the Seasons: Themes and Symbols of the Christian Year. Johannesburg: ACSA Publishing, 2015.
Chapters in Books
- “Signs of Localisation in South African Anglican Church Music: Some Examples of Transformation at the College of the Transfiguration in Grahamstown” in Making Congregational Music Local in Christian Communities Worldwide, pp. 161 – 178, edited by Monique M. Ingalls, Muriel Swijghuisen Reigersberg, Zoe C. Sherinian. Farnham: Ashgate, 2018.
- “Promoting Transcultural Musical Interactions at Grahamstown Cathedral: An Analysis of Recent Experiences” in Sacred Messages in a Secular World: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Multiculturalism and the Christian Experience, pp. 163 – 180, edited by Kesha Morant Williams and Omotayo Banjo. Lanham: Lexington, 2018.
Journal Articles
- “Fledgling South African Anglicanism and the Roots of Ritualism” – Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, vol. 46, no. 3 (2020): 1 – 18.
- “Examples of Anglican Ritualism in Victorian South Africa: Towards an Understanding of Local Developments and Practice” – Journal of Anglican Studies, vol.18, no. 2 (2020): 162 – 179.
- “John Heavyside’s Manual of Psalmody for Public Worship of 1839: South Africa’s First Anglican Collection of Metrical Psalms and Hymns” – Muziki, vol. 16, no. 1 (2019): 74 – 99.
- “Ingoma and St Matthew’s Tune Book: Two South African Missionary Tonic Sol-fa Hymn-tune Collections” – Journal of Musical Arts in Africa, vol. 16, no. 1-2 (2019): 1 – 27.
- “An Emerging Local Musical Voice at Grahamstown Anglican Cathedral: Experiments in Localisation” – Culture and Religion, vol. 19, no. 3 (2018): 273 – 297.
- “A Transfiguring Tradition of Anglican Music: An Analysis of Localised and Experimental Church Music at the College of the Transfiguration” – South African Journal of Musicology, vol. 36/37 (2018): 311 – 346.
- “Responding to Xenophobia through Sacred Music: A Self-Reflexive Analysis and Discussion of A Chamber Eucharist” – Vir die Musiekleier, vol. 37 (2017): 27 – 50.
- “The Transfiguring Tradition of Anglican Music: An Analysis of Localised and Experimental Church Music at the College of the Transfiguration” – South African Journal of Musicology.
- “The Transforming Idioms of South African Hymn Tunes: Diminishing Residues of Colonial Harmonic Systems and the Reinterpretation of Hymn Tunes” – Muziki, vol. 14, no. 1: 7 – 25.
- “A Brief History of Anglican Liturgy in Southern Africa: Liturgical Developments from 1908 – 2010” – Journal of Anglican Studies, vol. 51, no. 1 (2017): 58 – 87.
- “Building New Traditions of Multicultural and Multilingual Hymnody: An Analysis of New South African Hymns by John Gardener” – The Hymn, vol. 68, no. 1 (2017): 14 – 22.
- “Glimpses into the Music and Worship Life of a Victorian Colonial Cathedral: The Anglican Cathedral Church of St Michael and St George in 1900 (Grahamstown, South Africa)” – Yale Journal of Music and Religion, 3, no. 1 (2017): 15 – 32.
- “Tracing the Theological Development of the South African Baptismal Rites: The Journey to An Anglican Prayer Book 1989 and Beyond” – Anglican Theological Review, vol. 99, no. 1 (Winter 2017): 45 – 64.
- “Singing a New Song for a Transforming Church: Experiments in Musical Localisation at Grahamstown Cathedral, South Africa” – Vir die Musiekleier, vol. 36 (2016): 7 – 26.
- “Negotiating Musical Cultures in Colonial Hymnody: Analysing Localised Harmonisations of Western Hymn Tunes” – African Music, vol. 9, no. 6 (2016): 186 – 209.
- “Music in the South African Anglican Diocese of Cape Town from 1900 to the Present: Toward a History of Anglican Music in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa” –Yale Journal of Music and Religion, vol. 2, no. 1 (March 2016): 1 – 24.
Community Involvement
- St John’s Anglican Church multilingualism and multiculturalism project
- Pre-concert lecturer at Friends of Music (before the KZNPO concerts)
Teaching Expertise
- Music theory
- Music history
- Musical composition
- Choral studies
- Anglican studies
- Christian liturgy
- South African Anglican history