Venues
NWU Conservatory
62 Thabo Mbeki Way, Potchefstroom
The music history of Potchefstroom started almost a century before the Conservatory was built. The first music recital, of which we have a record, was on 9 August 1863 when a group by the name De Harmonie held a concert and had an ambitious 21 items on the programme.
In the years that followed various musical societies and teachers were active in Potchefstroom. In 1914 MM van der Bent and his wife, Florence, founded the Potchefstroom College of Music, which was situated in a building in Potgieter Street (currently Nelson Mandela Drive).
When the Potchefstroom University College (PUC) bought this music school in 1949, it was regarded as one of the most important music institutions in the Transvaal.
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