Jaco Meyer
Jaco Meyer is a composer and researcher who graduated with a PhD in musicology from the North-West University and an LTCL in Composition from the Trinity College of London. As composer he received many commissions and his music has been performed by international musicians, ensembles and orchestras. In 2019 the saxophone and cello duo, the Thomas-Helton Duo from America, toured South Africa and performed his composition A Wind-Up Doll's Dream and this work was also recorded for their next album that will be released in 2020. Currently, he is working on a project for which he will compose music for sculptures by Willem Boshoff in the MTN Foundation Art Collection. His research on music analysis, music theory and perception in music has been presented at various international conferences and published in peer-reviewed journals.