Nina Fourie-Gouws

http://ninaguitar.co.za/Nina Fourie-Gouws was born in Pretoria, South Africa. She completed both her Bachelor and Masters in Music Performance degrees at the University of Pretoria and also received a Licentiate in Classical Guitar Teaching from the University of South Africa. In 2012 Fourie-Gouws obtained her Postgraduate in Music Performance with distinction from the South African College of Music, University of Cape Town. She is the first guitarist to receive these honours cum laude.  

Fourie-Gouws is a 2012 and 2014 Volterra Guitar Project alumnus and has also received masterclasses from a large number of concert guitarists and pedagogues, including Carlos Bonell (Royal College of Music in London), Nikita Koshkin (Russia), Marco Tamayo (Cuba), Štěpán Rak (Czech Republic), Victor Villadangos (Argentina), Goran Krivokapic (Montenegro), Antigoni Goni (Greece) and Carlos Barbosa-Lima (Brazil), to name a few.

Since 2013 Nina Fourie-Gouws has been part-time guitar lecturer at Stellenbosch Konservatorium where she teaches pre-undergraduate and undergraduate practical music studies, accompaniment, repertoire studies and teaching methodology. Nina maintains an active concert schedule throughout Southern Africa and has performed as a guest artist on the South African television show, Kyknet’s Draadloos.

http://ninaguitar.co.za

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