DR SELLO GALANE Dr Sello Galane has a PhD in Musicology from the University of Pretoria. He is a music composer, arranger and producer, and a Arts Education Chief Specialist. He has been teaching from high school, college of education to university with keen interest both on the redress agenda for creating parity of discourse between Western and Indigenous African music, dance, drama, and visual arts education. Recently, he has been involved in the development of training manuals for Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement training of Curriculum Advisors throughout the all nine provinces. The inclusion of both Jazz and Indigenous Music streams in the curriculum has been one of his achievements as a Chief Education Specialist together with other members of the Ministerial Task Teams appointed to carry out the task. He served as an external examiner for third year music students at University of Pretoria, and is currently an external examiner for MA Arts programme at TUT. He has performed in many international arts programmes in different parts of the world and has served both in the NEPAD and UNESCO Arts Education committees and programmes. Dr Sello Galane also served as a member of the Board of the National Arts
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Council of South Africa. He is a published poet, and an editor of the book on the History of South African music Beyond Memory. He is a recipient of many awards including the Smithsonian Institute of American Folklife, OT Award from University of Limpopo, Mapungubwe Award, and the Kwankwetla award from the Agananang Municipality for substantial contribution to the development of the arts of South Africa. In 2013 he received the Tribute to Heroes Lifetime Achievement Award. Galane has written music for a number of well known musicians like Selaelo Selota with his contribution of a track ‘Painted Phases’, and Re a lotsha on Judith’s ‘New Beginnings’. He was appointed the musical director for an international musical ‘Mother of Rain’ which premiered at the State Theatre, Grahamstown Arts Festival, and Burmingham. His biggest contribution was the development of Kiba music of South Africa (MA – cum laude) and the Analysis of Dr Phillip Tabane’s Malombo music (Dmus). His international experience includes performing in Senegal, North Sea (Den Hagen), Washington DC, Lesotho, South Africa, Nantes, Paris and Kannes in France, and ran Arts Industry Workshops in Namibia, Nigeria, and presented papers at UNESCO conferences South Africa and Korea, SATI Inaugural Conference in Swaziland, and attended Ethnomusicology workshops in Zimbabwe, just to mention but a few.
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