Department of Music

Stephanus Muller

DPhil (Oxon), MSt (Oxon), MMus (Unisa), MA (US), BMus Hons (Unisa), HED (UP), BMus (UP), UTLM, LTCL

Stephanus Muller lectures in musicology and is responsible for the Music Documentation Centre (DOMUS) in the Department of Music.

Stephanus Muller was born in 1971 in Pretoria. He received his secondary education at the Hoër Volkskool, Graaff-Reinet. At the University of Pretoria he studied piano with Prof. Joseph Stanford and Ms. Marian Friedman and organ with Prof. S.C. Zondagh. He completed his BMus degree in performance in 1992 and continued his studies in musicology at Unisa with Prof. Bernhard van der Linde and Prof. Niel Geldenhuys while teaching music at Jeppe High School for Girls in Johannesburg. In 1998 he was awarded a MMus from the University of South Africa and a MSt (Master of Studies) from the University of Oxford. In 2001 he received his DPhil from the University of Oxford for a thesis on South African music and identity politics written under the supervision of Prof. Roger Parker. Before his appointment at Stellenbosch in 2005 he lectured at the University of the Free State. From 2004-2006 he was the Chairman of the Musicological Society of Southern Africa, and he currently serves on the Executive Committee of the South African Society for Research in Music and the Assessment Panel for Performing and Creative Arts, and Design of the NRF. He has edited NewMusicSA (Bulletin of the South African section of the International Society for Contemporary Music) and a guest issue of SAMUS on the music of Peter Klatzow. He is also the co-editor of A Composer in Africa: Essays on the Life and Work of Stefans Grové (SUN Press, 2005) and Gender, Sexuality and Music in South Africa (SUN Press, 2004).

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