Franco Prinsloo is an award winning composer from Pretoria, South Africa. He creates in a diverse variety of contemporary classical styles with a specific focus on choral music, vocal music and music for theatre.
He has been the Musical Director for the Nedbank Arts and Culture Trust Performing Arts Scholarships from 2014 to the present. In 2019 he received the prestigious ACT IMPACT AWARD for Young Professionals.
For his soundtrack to the film, Wonderlus, Prinsloo was nominated for the prestige Silwerskermfees award for best original score in an Afrikaans feature film.
He is an active composer in the new music scene in South Africa He has been commissioned by prominent choirs including: The King’s Singers; Kammerchor | Vocalisti (Hans-Joachim Lustig) and the acclaimed overtone singer Anna-Maria Hefele; The Akustika Chamber Singers (Christo Burger); The University of Stellenbosch Choir (André van der Merwe); The University of Pretoria Camarata (Michael Barrett).
Prinsloo established and conducts the chamber choir, Vox Chamber Choir, in 2017. The choir received a golden medal at the Interkultur World Choir Games in Tswane in 2018 and another golden medal at the International Anton Bruckner competition in Linz, Austria in 2019, during Vox Chamber Choir’s tour of Europe. The Choir performed in notable venues and premiered Prinsloo’s new mass, Missa Brevis “San Marco” in the Basilica San Marco in Venice, Italy.
His choral piece, Pula, Pula! (from his musical: “Naledi - an African Journey”), was commissioned by the NWU PUK Arts for the King’s Singers to be performed in 2017. This composition also represented South Africa at the 2018 ISCM World Music Daysin Tallin, Estonia and was performed by Collegium Musicale under the direction of Endrik Üksvärav.
A selection of his choral music is published at Helbling Verlag (Austria) and available worldwide online.
​Prinsloo composed a choral musical: "Naledi - An African Journey" which had its debut in February 2016 both at the South African State Theatre and at the Choralies Festival in France. The work was performed in April 2018 by the Cor di Juni Santa Christinain Val Gardena, Italy. Since the work has been numerously staged in South Africa and abroad with notable performences by the South African Youth Choir at the ArtsCape Theatre and a performence and audio recording by the Vox Chamber Choir in 2019. "Naledi an African journey" will be published worldwide by Helbling Verlag in 2020.
In 2018 he presented discussions and presentations about his own compositions for choir in collaboration with Helbling Verlag at the Europe Cantate in Tallinn, Estonia. Further more Prinsloo co-presented a performance of new compositions for viola at the 2018 International Viola Congress (ICV). Prinsloo presented new music for Harp and Soprano at the International Harp Congress in Hong Kong in 2017. In 2019 Prinsloo presented reading sessions and a lecture recital at the Chor.com in Hannover, Germany.