The University of Cape Town's, music department is known internationally as the South African College of Music (SACM) and is considered to be the leading music school in South Africa.
SACM offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree and diploma programmes specialising in African and World Music, Jazz Studies, Composition, Classical Music, Opera, Music Technology and Musicology.
The College staff includes some of the foremost and internationally acclaimed performing artists, academics and composers; our graduates continue to dominate the arenas of performance and academia.
Some of our alumni include: singers Pumeza Matshikza, Golda Schultz, Filipa van Eck, Sarah-Jane Brandon, Musa Ngqungwana, Levy Sekgapane and Pretty Yende, who are enjoying great success in the field of Opera around the world; Selaelo Selota and Jimmy Dludlu (jazz guitar), Darren English (jazz trumpet) and Vuyo Sotashe (jazz vocalist) are playing the jazz scene internationally; pianist James Baillieu is now Professor of Piano Accompaniment and Vocal Repertoire at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and is in demand as a performer around Europe, Asia and the USA.
