Find out more at www.qut.edu.au Completing a postgraduate degree will give you a competitive edge in your career, or help you change careers entirely. You can graduate eligible for registration with professional organisations. Studying a research degree can lead you to becoming a leader in your field. Postgraduate study is also an opportunity to continue your university education simply for the love of learning.
Jacques van Oortmerssen inaugurates the new baroque organ at Cornell University Jacques van Oortmerssen (Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 1950) studied at the Conservatory of Rotterdam (NL), where he completed his soloist diplomas for both the organ, as a student of André Verwoerd, and for piano as a student of Elly Salomé. Thereafter he undertook postgraduate study with Marie-Claire Alain in Paris. He e was awarded the Prix d’ Excellence in 1976. In 1977 he won first prize in the National Improvisation Competition in Bolsward (NL) and was runner-up in the Tournemire Prize in St Albans (England). He has been professor of organ at the Conservatory of Amsterdam (NL) since 1979, where his organ class attracts students from many countries. In 1982 he succeeded Gustav Leonhardt as Organiste Titulaire of the Waalse kerk in Amsterdam, where he plays the famous 1734 Christian Müller organ. Jacques van Oortmerssen enjoys an international reputation as both soloist and pedagogue, in which context he is regularly invited to teach at Universities and Conservatories throughout the world. He has been leader of the Falun Organ Academy in Falun (Sweden) for many years since 1984, was Betts Fellow in Organ Studies at the University of Oxford (England) during the 1993-1994 academic year and Associate Professor at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki (Finland) during the 1994-1995 academic year. He will receive an honorary doctorate at this academy in June 2012. Jacques van Oortmerssen was a regular …
Find out more at www.qut.edu.au The Creative Industries Faculty’s academic programs include some of the highest-demand courses at QUT. Master degrees across a range of creative study areas include Animation, Creative Production and Arts Management, Creative Writing, Interactive and Visual Design, Interdisciplinary, Music and Sound, and Professional Communication.
Coenie de Villiers was born and bred in the Free State where he completed his post-graduate studies in Communication, Media Science and Marketing at Free State University . He studied classical piano and played his formal keyboard exams through UNISA. Coenie is known as the foremost writer/performer in Afrikaans, and critics universally regard his lyrics as being of a world-class standard. He has performed on virtually all of South Africa ‘s major stages, and has shared shows with the likes of Sibongile Khumalo, Gloria Bosman, Sipho Gumede, Laurika Rauch, David Kramer and a brace of other South African artists. Likewise, many South African artists have performed with him on his twelve albums, inter alia Jonathan Butler, Sipho Gumede, Gloria Bosman, Amanda Strydom, Afrika Mamas, Leslie Rae Dowling, Steve Newman, Amampondo, David Kramer, Brasse vannie Kaap and Karen Zoid. He has performed abroad in New Zealand , Canada , England , Holland and Belgium . Coenie has won numerous awards for his music including two SAMA awards for musical excellence. He is universally acknowledged as one of the most challenging and original singer/songwriters in South Africa , and has for many years bridged the musical divides between cultures in South Africa . For the rest of this biography, please go here: www.riku.co.za For a short biography on Steve Hofmeyr written in Afrikaans, please go here: www.riku.co.za For a comprehensive biography on Steve Hofmeyr, please go to the WikiPedia page …
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The University of the West Indies (UWI) St Augustine will this year [2008] make approximately TT0000 available to applicants for postgraduate study. The St Augustine campus will receive applications for higher studies at a Postgraduate Open Forum from 9 amto 1 pm on Wednesday 25thJune, 2008 at the Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business (GSB) Auditorium, off Uriah Butler Highway, Mt Hope. Designed to show prospective postgraduate students a wide range of possibilities for scholarship, research, development and innovation, the Open Forum will include a series of presentations by the UWI St Augustine Faculties of Science & Agriculture, Social Sciences, Humanities & Education, Engineering and Medicine, as well as a special presentation by the Lok Jack Business School. It will be formally opened by Pro Vice Chancellor and Campus Principal, Professor Clement Sankat, who is the former Pro Vice Chancellor for Graduate Studies
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To be eligible, you must have completed or be completing your undergraduate or postgraduate studies in the last 3 years. You also need to have Australian citizenship or permanent residency at the time you apply. We want to know all about you, so we’ll get you to fill out the online form, enter your academic results and tell us about your achievements, extra curricular activities and future aspirations. We’re not only interested in your scores, but in who you are – what you stand for, where you’re going, what you have done in the world and what you would love to do from here. We’re interested in you, the whole person … because you are the future of Australia Post. You can choose between a variety of roles in our head office in Melbourne. That’s one of the great things about Australia Post – you get real variety in your career choice.
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Postgraduate students from India, Spain and China explain why you should study for your Engineering Masters (MSc) Diploma at the Institute for System Level Integration in Edinburgh, Scotland. For more information visit: www.sli-institute.ac.uk
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The Sino-German School for Postgraduate Studies at Tongji University in Shanghai, China. Students are welcomed with Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite (Waltz of the Flowers)
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The School of Politics and International Relations at Kent offers an ideal environment for your studies in Politics and International Relations. We are a truly cosmopolitan department, with a long standing commitment to excellence and innovation in teaching and research, a welcoming and supportive approach and a broad range of International partnerships with top institutions. Take a look at our video and see for yourself what we have to offer.
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Peter Tchaikovsky – Concerto N1 final part. Conductor Pierre Dervoix Full version – www.marinamdivani.gol.ge MARINA GOGLIDZE-MDIVANI Marina Mdivani was born and began her musical education in Tbilisi, Georgia. In 1960, she both graduated from the Moscow Conservatory and began post-graduate studies there in the Professor Emil Gilels. In 1961, Ms. Mdivani won the Premier Grand Prix in the prestigious Concours International Marguerite Long-Jacques Тhibaud in Paris. The next year, Ms. Mdivani was а winner in what may have been the stiffest piano competition in history 1962 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Other prize-winners that year included Vladimir Ashkenazy and John Ogdon. In 1963, Ms.Mdivani completed her post-graduate studies at the Conservatory and made an eight-week tour of the United States and Canada. Тhe tour culminated in а recital at Camegie Hall. As principal soloist of the Moscow Philharmonic Society for twenty five years, Ms. Mdivani’s career as orchestral soloist and recitalist has taken her throughout Europe, Russia and North and South America. Her repertoire includes approximately 40 concertos plus а vast number of chamber works. Often her programs are unusual. In оnсе concert, for example, she played а five Prokofiev concertos. She has recorded works bу Haydn, Mussorgsky and Tchaikovsky for ЕМI and works bу Prokofieff, Mendelsshon, Debussy, Ovshinnikov, Weinberg and Taktakishivili for Melodiya. Ms. Mdivani has been а successful professor of piano at …
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Shantiniketan (“Abode of Peace”) began as a meditation centre founded and endowed in 1863 by Maharishi Debendranath, the father of the Nobel laureate Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, who, in turn, established the Brahmo Vidyalaya (school) and in 1901 another open-air laboratory school. By 1921 the latter had expanded into Vishva Bharti University, which sought a basis for a common fellowship between the cultures of East and West. A residential university with an international student body, hostels, and extensive grounds, it includes colleges for fine arts and crafts, Sino-Indian studies, music and dance, research in Asian languages, teacher training, technology, and postgraduate studies and research. Rabindra-Sadana is the university’s museum and academy for the study of Tagore. The town also contains Udayana, Tagore’s residence. Another Nobel laureate, Amartya Sen, studied at Shantiniketan, as did Satyajit Ray and Indira Gandhi. At nearby Sriniketan is an institution founded in 1922 by Tagore and an associate that is concerned with rural reconstruction, health, social welfare, and the revival of ancient arts and handicrafts. Many outstanding Indian painters have studied there. in the Birbhum District is a land of red soil with lush green paddy fields. The main attraction of this place remains because of its association with Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), one of Bengal’s greatest figures. Of course the natural charm of Santiniketan is a major draw in itself …
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Dr. Sudah Yehuda Kovesh Shaheb is an Australian and has worked all his professional life with Indigenous Peoples of the world. He is an Endocrinologist and a Medical Anthropologist. He has been associated with UmonHon and HoCank Tribes in Nebraska for many years. He teaches Medical Anthropology in Havana, Cuba, and is involved in a new project in setting up clinics in Cambodia. Dr. Sudah Yehuda Kovesh Shaheb graduated from Medical School in London, England and did his Internal Medicine Residency at Universities of Melbourne and Queensland in Australia. He did his postgraduate studies in Endocrinology at the Washington University School of Medicine and University of Miami School of Medicine. He has taught at Universities of Miami in Miami, Florida and Texas at Galveston, Texas as well as University of West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica. He did further postgraduate studies in Medical Anthropology at Brunel University of West London and has been a visiting professor of Anthropology at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Havana for many years. His professional association with the Native Peoples of the world commenced during his medical student days. He has been a consultant endocrinologist to the Omaha Tribe in Nebraska for many years, as well to tribes in other states. He has been involved in international health for many years, and has had projects in Jamaica, Cuba, Myanmar, and Cambodia, among others. He has visited many major native groups in the world …
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