Moreira Chonguica, renowned Cape Town based award-winning jazz saxophonist, together with his band The Moreira Project, will conduct a musical workshop for the Pamberi Trust, a non-profit organisation based in , on Saturday 1, May at The Book Cafe and Mannenberg in Harare. This is part of Moreira's ethos of passing on knowledge to the next generation and sharing with them an art form and instrument that they may not have been privileged to have experienced before. The Moreira Project is also scheduled to perform during the course of the evening at the same venue.
Moreira is involved in various CSI initiatives in and around Cape Town. Currently, Moreira is involved with a community school in Kensington, Cape Town, called Xulon Musictech run by Camillo Lombard and Ezra Delport where he teaches saxophone and life skills to young aspiring musicians on a regular basis. In addition, he also tutors young aspiring saxophonists free of charge. He is also very involved as a patron of Escola Nacionale de Musica, the music school in Maputo that he attended as a youngster.
States Moreira: "œIt's an absolute privilege for me to pass on what I've been fortunate enough to learn during my training at the University of Cape Town to passionate youngsters on the various aspects of music and how to apply the principles thereof. Teaching and sharing music is a great passion of mine and seeing aspiring musicians become successful artists in this very challenging music industry, is extremely heart warming for me. I always take so much away from sessions like these as I always learn so much in the process - music is a universal language and has many lessons to teach."
The Book Cafe and Mannenberg, which operate under the auspices of the Pamberi Trust, actively promotes the arts and runs the most diverse arts development programme in Zimbabwe, and in some ways the region, with comprehensive programmes in youth, freedom of expression, jazz, music, poetry and much more.
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