Vincent Mtetwa

BIO

First Names : Musawenkosi Vincent
Surname : Mtetwa
I D Number : 790401 5464 080
Gender : Male
Nationality : South African
Marital Status: Married
Health : Excellent
Driver’s License: C1 (October 2004)
Musa Vincent Mtetwa has performed throughout the country and internationally as a Jazz musician and Lecturer, also working with the traditional African musicians in South Africa.
He has shared the stage with many great musicians i.e. Madala Kunene, Umkhumbane Jazz Ensemble, Hugh Masekela, Jimmy Dludlu, Selaelo Selota, Caiphus Semenya, Brian Thusi and many others.
He has performed before thousands of people in the following platforms:
● Cape Town International Jazz Festival
● The Essence Festival
● Arts Alive Festival
● The Market Theatre
● Joy of Jazz
● Grahamstown Jazz Festival
● Awesome Africa
● MTN Jazz Festival
● Ugu Jazz Festival
● Rainbow Jazz Year-end Concerts
He is currently a freelance-musician and has recently produced an album with the Durban Jazz-Legends (Umkhumbane Jazz Ensemble). In 2014 has been working with the COPA Academy (Kensington, Johannesburg) as a Music Lecturer. Copa Academy has branches in Durban, Johannesburg, Cape Town and Pretoria.
In October 9-11, 2014 he performed with Madala Kunene, as resident band-keyboard-player, at the Carnegie Hall, New York City, in the UBUNTU festival together with Hugh Masekela and Ladysmith Black Mambazo [20 years of SA democracy celebration]. His performance experience has opened doors in other various fields of musical genres such as contemporary music, where he did a series of different tribute shows at THE DOCKYARD SUPPER THEATRE. This happened in 2003-2010 and the shows were as follows:
BEE GEES, CARLOS SANTANA, PAUL Mc CARTNEY, THE EAGLES, ELTON JOHN, THE BEATLES, TOTO, ABBA etc. He later joined The Pumpkin Theatre from the period 2010 – 2011.
Throughout this whole experience, he has always been involved with different churches, over a period of 21 years, as a Musical Director and Keyboard-Player.
He has also toured Swaziland with Mr Madala Kunene, the late Mr Mandla Masuku and has also performed in China through Arts and Culture KZN (Feb 2007-Chinese New Year
2
World Event). Between 2004 and 2007 Arts and Culture had an initiative where they granted certain groups from different districts of KwaZulu Natal that had won on traditional African music competitions, a free-album recording deal and Mr Mtetwa was part of those recording sessions. He has also produced and recorded with some prominent musicians namely: Dr Brian Thusi (afro-jazz), Thulani Ga Ndlela (gospel), and currently, Mr Mduduzi Magwaza (former Mango Groove-Penny whistle player and Composer).
He obtained his BPrac Mus (in Jazz and Popular Music) in 2011 and also has a Diploma in Light Music with the Natal Technikon, now known as the Durban University of Technology, 2001). His career as a Lecturer at the UKZN has exposed him to many great Musicians and allowed him to groom others in the process. He works with community projects and has been a part of the Bat Centre in Durban, Msunduzi Music School in Pietermaritzburg and with the UKZN Music School as a Jazz and Popular Music Lecturer. He has received many Awards in his career e.g.
● Best Contemporary Musician
● Old Mutual Jazz Encounters
● Ear Training Merit Award
● Performance in Jazz & Popular Music (4th Year)
● Music Appreciation
● Harmony
● Counterpoint
● Instrument [Piano]
References
● UKZN (Mr Neil Gonzalves) 031 260 2377
● COPA Academy (Mr David Jooste) 011 615 7311
● Umkhumbane Jazz Ensemble (Mr Jerry Kunene) 072 108 5174
● Umsunduzi Music School (Mr Nhlanhla Mnikathi) 033 345 8618
076 545 4495
● BAT Centre (Miss Nise Malange) 031 332 0451
● Madala Kunene Band (Mr Madala Kunene) 083 684 5547
● Siloam Word Alive (Pastor Manuel Pascoal) 011 452 3211
Street Address: C163 Fredville, Inchanga, 3670
Phone: +27 83 745 0098 ● E-mail address [email protected]