Kyle Shepherd, one of South Africa’s leading jazz, film and theatre music composers and pianists of his generation, is the next attraction at the FMR’s fifth Take Note concert this Sunday 30 July at Guga S’thebe at 3pm.
Shepherd will be accompanied by bass player Nicholas Williams and drummer Jonno Sweetman with guest saxophonist Justin Bellairs. The FMR Take Note concerts are supported by the Media Development and Diversity Agency and curated by the Cape Town Music Academy – CTMA. They are recorded live for a later broadcast on FMR.
Internationally recognised for his distinctive compositional style and performances, the multi-award-winning Shepherd has performed in 28 countries around the world, including 11 concert tours to Japan.
He has released seven jazz albums to date with an impressive number of film, television and theatre score credits. These include Unseen, season 1 (reached #3 on Netlfix’s global ranking for April 2023), Blood and Water, season 2 (Netflix), Savage Beauty, season 1 (Netflix), Surviving Paradise, as additional music composer (Netflix), Indemnity and Barakat, South Africa’s official entry into the 2022 Academy Awards and winner for Best Score at the 2022 Silwerskerm Film Festival, Fiela se Kind (2019) also winner for Best Score at the 2020 Silwerskerm Film Festival, Vlugtig (Kyknet) and Noem My Skollie (Call Me Thief), South Africa’s official entry to the 2017 Academy Awards.
He was awarded the 2018 South African Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Award: Book, Creative Collection and Digital Contribution 2018, hosted by the National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS), for Best Musical Composition for his score for, Noem My Skollie. Shepherd is also the co-creator of the hit Afrikaans television show, Koortjies with Jonathan Rubain (Kyknet).
Along with multiple SAFTA, SAMA and Silwerskerm nominations, he most recently was nominated for a Fleur du Cap Best Sound Design, Original Music, Soundscape or Live Performance award for Lara Foot’s award-winning Life & Times of Michael K. The production, adapted for the stage by Foot and the world-renowned Handspring Puppet Company, is based on the Nobel prize-winning novel by J.M Coetzee and won the Fleur du Cap award for best theatre production 2023.
Shepherd has just completed a celebrated run of performances at the Theatre de Chatelet in Paris and continues international touring with Waiting for the Sibyl, a chamber opera created in collaboration with world renowned visual artist William Kentridge and co-composer Nhlanhla Mhlangu. The opera won the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award (2023) in the UK.
On Sunday, Shepherd will perform his original composition and Well-known South African standards.
WHAT: Kyle Shepherd – FMR’s Take Note Concert
WHERE: Guga S’thebe, Washington St, Langa, Cape Town, 7455
WHEN: Sunday 30 July at 3pm.
TICKETS: R80/R50 on Quicket
INFO: Luvuyo Kakaza T 060 960 8935 | E luvuyo@ctma.co.za
