Chantal is a South African music composer/arranger/producer, bassist/vocalist, arts researcher & jazz lecturer, director/performer for radio, television, film & curator for creative projects. In June 2022, Chantal was appointed as the first female president of the SAJE (The South African Association of Jazz Education) and will be serving the term 2022 – 2024. She curated and performed as artist in
residence at the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NISHH) Awards (2022). Further, she was invited along with acclaimed South African author Bettina Wyngaard (winner of the Jan Rabie Rapport Prize and the vice-chair of the writers' organisation PEN Afrikaans) and American Professor Tiffany NG, to speak at the University of Michigan Center for World Performance Studies.This event also premiered Chantal’s commissioning, as one of three of the first South African and African composers to write for carillon bells: Kloppe Roep - Calling Bells, dedicated to “the enslaved women at the Cape (1657)" which was performed by world- renowned American carillonist Tiffany NG. This occasion also premiered works by acclaimed SA composer Dr Bongani Ndodana-Breen and Kendall Williams.This event also premiered Chantal’s commissioning, as one of three of the first South African and African composers to write for carillon bells: Kloppe Roep - Calling Bells, dedicated to “the enslaved women at the Cape (1657)" which was performed by world- renowned American carillonist Tiffany NG. She has recently taken the invitation by Professor Johann Buis (Schulich Distinguished Visiting Professor/Dean’s Chair (2021-2022), at McGill University, Canada, to share her views in his forth-coming project on Music and Social Justice, and was delighted to share in the Engender South Africa discussion (Dr Clare Loveday) as part of The Royal Opera House, London programme this International Women’s Day. In June this year, she was listed as a Contributing Author, toward the launch of the prestigious, ground-breaking and international research resource/website which highlights the role of women in music historically and globally: "A Century of Women and the Carillon". Chantal co-wrote the work “Ringing Armistice in Cape Town”: Africa’s Only Carillon Chartered by South African Women". In September this year, Chantal was part of the 2nd International Arts Research Africa Conference, at Wits University. She will be part of the League of Women Bass Players - the Low B Inaugural Conference (Atlanta, USA) in January 2023. Chantal is a lecturer and PhD candidate at WITS University. Her PhD focuses on african feminism, historic sound and activsim in music.
