AMANDA TIFFIN

• Grew up in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, studied classical piano from a young age
• Studied at University of Cape Town , Jazz Performance and Composition
• Receive Masters Degree in Jazz Composition and Performance, with distinction

PROFESSIONAL MUSICIAN

• Perform extensively as vocalist and/or pianist around the country
• Leader, song-writer for Amanda Tiffin and the Semantics, a quartet performing her own songs and collaborations.
• Regular performer at top Cape Town Jazz venues, including The Green Dolphin, Pigalle, Paranga, Sheraton Hotel
• Run successful corporate Function Band, Nightshift, which comprises some of Cape Town ’s best musicians.
• Leader of all-female jazz vocal group Mamavox , currently making waves on the Cape Town music scene.
• Regular performer for corporate and private functions and events.
• Performed her own compositions with the Durban City Orchestra, arranged and conducted by German conductor, Philipp Maier in 2005
• Featured with the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra at the gala evening Night Of 100 Stars, 2005 at the Artscape Opera House.
• Pianist and vocalist for retro-swing band James Frank and the Sticky Triggers
• Took up several hotel contracts abroad and in Johannesburg .
• Harpsichordist for Baroque ensemble, the Noordhoek Chamber Orchestra.
  

• Amanda has recently completed recording her debut album, “Who Am I?” which will hit music stores and radio stations countrywide this year.
• Regular session singer and can be heard on a number of commercials running on South African Television and radio. 
• Featured as vocalist on internationally released documentary, Ocean Voyager, about humpback whales in the South Pacific.

• Worked as a musical director and bandleader, generating various productions for the stage and for the corporate market, as well as running and writing for her own groups
• Successfully produced a number of solo shows, to critical acclaim.
• Produced and performed in Piano In My Pocket, which received rave reviews and played to capacity houses at On Broadway. Due to popular demand, this show will return for a season at the new venue, theatre@thepavilion from 8 June.
• Performed in, and musically directed her own show I’m Every Woman– atribute to Female Vocalists of the 20th Century, and the Jazz tribute shows Ultimateand Ultimate Two.
• Amanda has appeared in various musical productions:
• Abrahamse/Lingenfelder productions ABBAish/ABBAtoir, Discovery/Discovery Much, andSolid Gold Jukebox - Live!
• Performed in and musically directed The Shakespeare Revue, Baxter Theatre
• Performed in and musically directed Tina Schouw and Christine Weir’s Lunar Tunes at the Two Oceans Aquarium.
• Musical director and featured as the piano-playing/singing character, Amelia in the 2004 season of the Shakespeare at Maynardville, in Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Fred Abrahamse
• Joined acclaimed a Cappella group, Not the Midnight Mass in 2001 as Musical Director, and later as a performer, for their live recording at the Planetarium, and for their run at the Oude Libertas Amphitheatre. In 2003, she worked with the all-male version, called Not The Midnight Mass-Q-Lyn, writing all the arrangements for their show at On Broadway in August.
• Appeared in Graham Weir’s (of Not the Midnight Mass) exciting new a cappella musical, Noah Of Cape Town
• Regular performer as vocalist or keyboardist in various Barnyard Theatre Productions, countrywide