The Team

• Shirley Apthorp: Director
• Imke Tramnitz: Executive Director
• Michael Dingaan: Head of Music
• Etienne Abelin: Social Entrepreneurship Strategy
• Andreas Janotta: Marketing and Management, Europe
• Platon Trakoshis: General Manager, South Africa
• Morten Schuldt-Jensen: Choir Conducting, Conductor Training
• Michael Williams: Conductor Cape Town Opera
• Felicia Lesch: Certificate Program, University of Stellenbosch
• Pamela Kiermann: Service Learning, University of Stellenbosch
• David Taylor: Educationalist, South Africa
• Jonas Alber: Conductor
• Katharina Winkler: Dramaturg
• Hans Huyssen: Baroque and African music
• Bongani Ndodana Breen: South African New Music
• Stefan Temmingh: Baroque and Contemporary Music
• Isabel Robson: Designer, Sets and Costumes, Video
• Markus Zugehoer: Vocal Coach
• Laura Ellersdorfer: Dramaturg
• Katharina Foerster: Development
• Marion Haak: Education Project Team
• Lea Heinrich: Education Project Team
• Alexis Kivi: Education Project Team
• Monica Mapetshana: Administrative Director, South Africa
• Indra Raj: Project Manager, South Africa
• Etienne Viviers: Project Coordinator, South Africa

Advisory Committee

• Gerard Mortier, Teatro Real, Madrid
• Zubin Mehta, Conductor
• Simone Young, Conductor, Hamburg State Opera
• Barbara Higgs, Lucerne Festival
• Gary Hanson, Cleveland Orchestra
• Rupert Dussman, London Opera Studio
• Kathryne Naish, Trondheim Soloists
• Rainer O. Brinkmann, Staatsoper Berlin
• Ivan van Kalmtout, Liceu Theatre, Barcelona
• Mary Deissler, London
• Brent Meersman, Arts journalist, Cape Town
• Charles Banjatwa, Artscape, Cape Town
• John Rockwell, Music Critic, New York
• Josephine Markowitz, Autumn Festival, Paris
• Jan Dalley, Financial Times, London

Cape Festival Board

• Shirley Apthorp: Director
• Thabo Dloti: Liberty Holdings
• Oscar Mdluli: Petro SA
• John Battersby: International Marketing Council of South Africa
• Bongani Ndodona Breen: Executive Chairman, BKNDO Pty Ltd
• Andreas Janotta: Andreas Janotta Artists Management
• Platon Trakoshis: Lucky Fish Productions, South Africa
• Christine Rhomberg: Lucerne Festival
• Barbara Higgs: Lucerne Festival

Supporters and Partners

The Cape Festival is supported by

• The Britten-Pears Foundation
• The K T Wong Foundation
• The Dutch Music Centre
• The Ghella Foundation
• The Norwegian Government
• OSRAM
• The Universität der Künste Berlin
• The University of Stellenbosch
• Private donors

International Partner Organisations

• FESNOJIV, Venezuela
• Zukunft@Phil, Berlin Philharmonic
• Trondheim Soloists
• Junge Staatsoper Berlin
• Festspielhaus St Pölten
• Britten-Pears Foundation
• Trondheim Soloists
• London Music Masters
• The Universität der Künste Berlin
• RESEO
• Opera Transparant, Belgium
• Wiener Taschenoper, Vienna
• Dutch Music Centre
• Immortal Bach Ensemble, Germany
• Sphinx Organization, USA

South African Partner Organisations

• New Music SA
• University of Stellenbosch
• SANYO
• Cape Philharmonic Orchestra
• Richard Wagner Society of SA
• Creative Voices
• UNISA
• Witts Universtiy Chamber Choir of SA
• DOMUS
• Carl Orff Society of SA
• Field Band Foundation
• Johannesburg Youth Orchestra
• Rhenish School
• Hout Bay Music Project Trust
• Darling Music Experience