Meet the Teachers
Claire Bradnum
Claire is an enthusiastic Musician, Teacher and Mother of 3. She has taught Music for many years in various programs, including part time work at the Heritage School, French School and various Nursery Schools around Harare, and full time at St John’s College and Gateway Primary School.
Claire qualified from Kindermusik International in 2009 to teach Music to very young children and progressed to Musikgarten in 2012.
She is equally at home with private lessons, small groups and very large choirs/orchestras, having been the Teacher in Charge of the Combined Primary School Choirs of Harare for a season and conducting some of their songs for several seasons. Claire conducts the Harare Children's Community Choir and the Harare Junior Youth Orchestra and hopes to add in the Harare Recorder Orchestra soon.
As a speaker, Claire has been invited to speak at several music events including an end of year Suzuki performance at the Harare International School and the annual Pre-School Teachers Society workshop. Passionate about bringing awareness to her community about the importance of music in the development of the brain, Claire has been asked to speak in this capacity at several events, including the annual School Counsellors event, Rainbow Nursery School, a GTLD (Gifted and Talented Learning Differences) event, a Zimbabwe Society of Music Teachers talk and the first Zimbabwe School Music Teacher's Conference.
Claire founded the Junior School Music Teachers' Association of Zimbabwe, is a trust member of the Killian Education Trust and has been elected onto the committee of the Zimbabwe Society of Music Teachers for the seventh year in a row. She is also on the board of Sing for Soup and an active member of the Zimbabwe Arts Programme.
In her spare time Claire plays with two recorder ensembles, enjoys writing music, reading, knitting, visiting family and friends, cycling, long walks and climbing mountains. She brings her enthusiasm, dedication and love for God into everything she does.
Othnell "Mangoma" Moyo
An ethnomusicologist and craftsman who builds the majority of the instruments he uses, Othnell Moyo has produced two eponymous albums and lent his services as a composer and session player to a number of internationally released albums. He tours extensively in many collaborative world music ensembles including Kullockcall (Norway/Zimbabwe),
Amazwekazi (Zimbabw/Austria/Sweden/Indonesia), SOWE (Burkina Faso/Zimbabwe) and Kunzwana 1 (Zimbabwe/France/Austria). Othnell currently is working with heading Music According to Percussion (Map) and Sadhana project that has musicians from America, Asia and Africa.
Othnell is the founder of Talent Explorer in Nguboyenja (TEN), a music festival and symposium.
Runyararo Nyahwa
Runyararo Nyahwa, a wife and mother to one beautiful daughter, is an mbira and African Music teacher. She received a BA in Music and Ethnochoreography from Great Zimbabwe University. She has been part of many local music festivals over the past 4 years which include RIO SET, Dzimbahwe Cultural Arts Festival and TIFAZ. She is a professional mbira player and a specialist in African traditional music.
As a teacher, Runyararo has lectured Music at the United College of Education in Bulawayo and has also been a freelance schools' choral music trainer in Masvingo Province since 2015 at both primary and secondary schools' levels.
Runyararo is a Christian who worships with the Seventh Day Adventist denomination. During her spare time she listens to music and enjoys playing the mbira. Runyararo also loves to visit friends during her free time.
