Andrew-John Bethke FBShttps://www.burgon.org.uk/events/online-talk-and-garden-party/ is a South African composer, conductor, organist, and musicologist.
Biography Bethke did his first degree at the University of Cape Town, and subsequently earned a master's degree in sacred music from Southern Methodist University. He later completed a doctoral degree at his alma mater, UCT, as well as a master's in theology from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Bethke was a trainee conductor at the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra.
Bethke was the director of music and precentor at the St. Michael and St. George Cathedral in Grahamstown as well as being the conductor of the Rhodes University Chamber Choir. He was previously a lecturer at the College of the Transfiguration.
He currently works at the School of Arts, University of KwaZulu-Natal. Bethke does research in Performing Arts, Musicology and History of Religion. In 2025, he was awarded the Distinguished Teachers' Award from that university.
Publications
Compositions His compositions include: In tender contemplation, premiered at the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music on 10 May 2015. Sing, O heavens, an entrant in the King James Bible Composition Competition.
Awards Bethke was a recipient of the Cape Organ Guild Barrow-Dowling Scholarship in 2004.
References May 2008 Commencement Ceremony
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