Award Winning composer and conductor, Pieter Bezuidenhout has come to be considered as one of South Africa’s most prominent emerging composers. Invested in the worlds of concert, chamber and theatre music, Bezuidenhout’s musical voice has come to be recognizable as truly unique and innovative. He has received composition accolades from the Tri-Arts Music Foundation, European Academy of Choral Conductors and twice by The Stevans Grove International Composition Competition. He is regularly commissioned locally as well as internationally to write works for ensembles ranging from instrumental chamber groups to festival choirs. His works have been performed in Graz, Washington, Bratislava, Istanbul, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore and by the Choir of the Music Conservatory in the Canary Islands to great acclaim. As conductor of the Horizons Project Choir, he specializes in the performance of new music written by young South African composers. Bezuidenhout’s music is published by Helbling Verlag Publishers in Innsbruck, Germany. As director of the productions company, Vektor Productions, Bezuidenhout helps promote, grow and sustain the South African contemporary arts scene through specialised productions, album releases and music publishing.