Composer Franco Prinsloo creates in a diverse variety of styles including choral, classical contemporary, new music, cabaret and theatre as well as pop music and electronica. He has composed and directed extensively for the stage including Maanmond (2009) Boegoe vannie liefde (2010) Pygmalion (2011) A Dolls House (2012) Skroothonde (2013) A Clockwork Orange, Marat/Sade (2014) Kind(s)(2015), CODE (2015) and Mosioua (2016) to name but a few highlights. For the past two years he has been the Musical Director for the Nedbank Arts and Culture Trust performing arts Scholarships. He is an active composer in the new music scene in South Africa including The Horizons Project choir and the Paz Consort. He has commissioned by prominent choirs including The Akustika Chamber Singers, The University of Johannesburg Choir, The Potchefstroom University Choir, The University of Pretoria Camarata, The Jacaranda Childrens choir, The Molen Kórus and the University of Pretoria Youth Choir. Prinsloo is also the conductor of his own three choirs. His compositions are frequently chosen as prescribed works at choral eisteddfods and competitions. His own discography include: "Prima Materia" with his duo Duo Solvtio, a avant garde exploration with fellow composer Andre van Rensburg; "Die Ryke dwaas" a solo album of piano contemplations, "Sonder merkwaardige klank" a series of art songs with Netanja Brink and "Mosiuoa" an original soundtrack to the stage play with the same title. Prinsloo extends beyond the boundaries of his own expressive medium and in 2015 had a sold out solo photographic exhibition at the Artlovers1932 gallery in Pretoria. He seeks to create through interdisciplinary collaboration and exploration. Prinsloo explores sound possibilities and often builds his own instruments (the XENOPHONE - a bowed metal instrument) or de-constructs/modifies/destroys old instruments,especially old found piano's. Recently he composed a musical "Naledi an African journey" that received its debut in February 2016 both at the South African State Theatre and at the Choralies festival in France. In March 2016 he underwent a sucsessful international concert tour to Hong Kong and Singapore with Soprano Jessica Ng and Harpist Judy Ho performing his original compositions to great acclaim. "Prinsloo assimilates and unites disparate traditions within his own idiom" - Paul Boekkooi, South African Art Critic