The people behind the voice
Those who lead the music, those who run the choir, those who sing, and those who once did.
At the front
Founding Musical Director
Busani Nkomo
2014 to present
Busani Nkomo is the Musical Director of Bulawayo Choristers Choir. Under his direction the choir has competed at the National Choir Festival in Harare and earned awards in Zimbabwe and South Africa.
He has said the choir is driven by the joy of singing and listening to choral music, and aims to serve the church and the community with its talents.
Technical Team
Witness Timothy Hadebe
Choir Chairman
Mrs P. Ncube
Choir Manager
S. N. Vuma
Public Relations Officer
F. Mlauzi
Choir Secretary
Those who built the voice
Directors, leaders and singers who gave years to the choir and have since moved on. We keep their names here with gratitude.
Lungelo Ncube
Conductor
2018 to 2025
Promoted from the ranks of the choristers to the conductor's post in 2018, he led the choir through its two ZITF titles, the 2019 Bulawayo Arts Award and its best placing at the Old Mutual National Choir Festival.
Givemore Hatinahama Muzombi
Founding interim technical team and first conductor
2014 to 2016
One of the six founding members who constitutionally formed the Choir on 22 December 2014, he also served as its first Conductor. In 2016, he conducted the Choir at the Old Mutual National Choir Festival in Harare, following in the footsteps of the Musical Director, who had conducted the Choir at the Festival for the first time in 2015 in Polokwane, South Africa.
Linda R. Duma
Conductor
2016
Appointed conductor in 2016 to teach theory and to conduct.
Dennis Kapiya
Choir trainer
2016
Appointed trainer in 2016 and credited by the choir with producing the voice that came to be recognised as the Bulawayo Choristers sound. He now serves on the board of the Siyephambili Choral Festival.
Clive Zephaniah Simango
Founding interim technical team
2014
One of the six who constitutionally formed the choir on 22 December 2014, and a member of the founding interim technical team that established it through the first auditions and rehearsal.
Paul Dumisani Bajila
Founding interim technical team
2014
One of the six who constitutionally formed the choir on 22 December 2014, and a member of the founding interim technical team that established it through the first auditions and rehearsal.
Thobeka Msipha
Founding interim technical team
2014
One of the six who constitutionally formed the choir on 22 December 2014, and a member of the founding interim technical team that established it through the first auditions and rehearsal.
Ntombizodwa Gumbo
Founding interim technical team, in memoriam
2014
One of the six who constitutionally formed the choir on 22 December 2014, and a member of the founding interim technical team. The late Mrs Gumbo is remembered by the choir with gratitude.
