Teachers


Ted Wright

Ted Wright began playing and studying Shona music with Marimba Muzuva in 1993, and has been teaching marimba, mbira, chipendani and gumboot dancing for many years. Ted WrightHe has studied and performed with many of Zimbabwe's top traditional musicians, receiving particular inspiration from the Chigamba family and Mhembero, Cosmas Magaya, Musekiwa Chingodza and Sydney Maratu.

Ted has been a regular teacher at the annual Zimbabwean Music Festival (Zimfest) since 1997, as well as teaching on-going classes, workshop groups, and in schools. He has travelled to Zimbabwe three times to study Zimbabwean music and culture at length.

Ted's engineering and/or production work can also be heard on numerous CD's, for artists such as Sydney Maratu, Garadziva Chigamba, Simukai, Amani Marimba, Makeke Marimba and Juba. He also offers his own field recordings from Zimbabwe on his Restless Rabbit label. His performing credits include Marimba Muzuva, world beat improv ensemble Spirit Gate, mbira quartet Choto, and Zimbabwean roots dance bands Zimfusion and Jambanja.



Guest Teachers

Bopoma students will have the opportunity to work with guest teachers as opportunity permits. Some of the teachers who have visited the Cowichan Valley thus far: