Tuks Camerata

TUKS Camerata Choir

Pamela Oosthuizen

Concert Manager:

Tuks Camerata &

Leo Haese Lunch Hour Concert

Humanities Building, Room 15-27

Tel: 012 420 5470

Email: [email protected]

Pamela Oosthuizen was appointed as Choir Manager in 2006.

Pamela is a qualified and experienced journalist. She was a reporter at the Pretoria News as well as journalist and photographer for in-house magazines and corporate newspapers.

Pamela is responsible for the management and administration of the University of Pretoria Camerata student choir which falls under the auspices of the Department of UP Arts.  This includes financial management and logistics for choir activities, which include concerts, tours, rehearsal camps and choir attire.

Past highlights as Choir Manager include organizing successful local and international choir tours to several countries including Kenya, Tanzania, Austria, Germany, Italy, Slovakia, Latvia, Poland and Spain. She also managed the choir’s participation at festivals such as the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival and Innibos Arts Festival, Nelspruit, Kuesta University Choirs Festivals, Huisgenoot Skouspel and the KykNet Varsity Sing competition.

Pamela is proud to be associated with UP Arts.  She believes that her work contributes to the positive experience of student life of the Tuks Camerata choir members so that their years of study at the University of Pretoria will be remembered as the best years of their lives! 

Dr. Michael Barrett

Conductor:

Tuks Camerata

Humanities, Room 15-26

Tel: 012 420 4182

Email: [email protected]

Michael Joseph Barrett is the conductor of the Tuks Camerata and a lecturer in Choral Music Studies in the Department of Music. He was a member of the Drakensberg Boys’ Choir from 1992 to 1997. He obtained the degrees BMus in Performing Arts (cum laude) in 2005 and MMus (Performing Arts), specialising in choral conducting from the University of Pretoria. He holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) as well as a Performance Licentiate in Singing (2008) from UNISA.

Michael’s choirs have won many national and international awards for conducting.  He is an active composer and arranger and his music is published by Santa Barbara Music Publishers (USA). He is in high demand as an adjudicator for international choral competitions and is regularly invited to present workshops abroad. Under his leadership, the Tuks Camerata has been invited to the World Symposium on Choral Music (Spain 2017), crowned Champions at the World Choir Games (Latvia 2014), and produced three CDs, namely Phoenix (2015), Love and War (2016) and Indodana (2017).