Njabuo Madlala

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Njabulo Madlala is a South African lyric bass-baritone studying on the post graduate opera course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where his a Samling Foundation Scholar, Britten Pears Young Artist, winner of the Young Kathleen Ferrier Bursary, and is supported various foundations.

He has appeared with opera companies including Opera Holland Park, Broomhill and Riverside Opera, Garsington Opera and others. He has also sang at the Royal Opera House, Saddlers Wells, Cheltenham Festival, Wigmore Hall and other venues in the UK and at the Montepulcino Festival Italy, Swedish Radio Orchestra in Stockholm, Hawaii Performing Arts Festival and others abroad.

Njabulo works closely with Sarah Walker on recital repertoire and has appeared at the Oxford Lieder Festival, Concordia Foundation, Tavistock Festival and is giving a number of recitals around the UK in 2008.

Alongside his classical music training and performing, Njabulo continues to research and perform South African indigenous Folk music. Passionate to extend opportunities to other young South African singers, Njabulo has instigated a series of masterclasses in South African townships to be given by professors from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in March 2008.

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