Leana Alkema
Leana Alkema, daughter of Sjoerd and Anna-Marie Alkema, has won many awards and prizes in South Africa. As soloist she performed with leading orchestras such as the KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra, South African National Youth Orchestra and the Free State Symphony Orchestra. After finishing her B-Mus Studies at UCT with distinction, she went abroad to further her studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main where she studied with Prof. László Fenyö and Sabine Krams completing her Masters in Music in 2016. Furthermore she attended workshops in Orchestral – and Choral Conducting as well as Sound Painting.