Composer Caroline Leisegang brings music from the heart to Joburg concert
The award-winning classical composer is preparing to launch her third album after a difficult hiatus, writes Eugene Yiga
She has overcome adversity to prepare another album, and Joburg composer Caroline Leisegang has huge plans for the future. She has been out of sight for more than a year, spending much of it in hospital. As a child growing up on a street arched by trees in Saxonwold, Leisegang’s main interests were using her imagination to create whatever she could with her mind. She wasn’t particularly sporty, nor was she very musical even though she started learning piano at the age of six, picked up the cello at 14 and had music as a matric subject. "My musical training is at best quite sketchy," she admits. "I’ve never been an exceptional performer but I’ve always had the encouragement of my parents to stick with music. "Instead of film school, I studied music at Wits but dropped out in my third year because I was feeling stuck. The degree was beginning to make me lose my love for music and I wanted so much more." She wanted to write music and one of her close friends gave her an opportunity to ...
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