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MIAGI - Music is a great Investment http://www.miagi.co.za MIAGI – MUSIC IS A GREAT INVESTMENT (Reg. No. 2001/015788/08) a not for profit company based in South Africa, established in 2001.

MIAGI invests in human capacity through music. Human capacity is the only way to sustainability and sustainability is economic growth. For 22 years, the South African Non-Profit-Organisation MIAGI, Music is a great Investment, established and managed by the South African born singer Robert Brooks and the Finnish born pianist Ingrid Hedlund, has offered a wide range of educational opportunities equ

ipping young South Africans to advance their life prospects. Similarly, the nationally and internationally celebrated MIAGI Orchestra with its numerous creative hubs in form of smaller formations and ensembles, unites young talents through excellence, creative cooperation and innovation across ethnic and social borders, embodying the ideals of Nelson Mandela. MIAGI is currently fundraising for a second MIAGI founded educational and cultural centre in a historically deprived settlement, 'MIAGI Cultural Investment Centre Khayelitsha'. In 2019, MIAGI established the MIAGI supporting Non-Profit-Association Music is a great Investment Sweden.

'MIAGI unites the Power of Classical, Indigenous and Jazz'

Thank you to Robert Bosch (PTY) LTD and the Barbara and Wilfried Mohr Foundation for their on-going support of our work.

09/08/2026

Today we celebrate Women's Day in South Africa with a MIAGI memory from 21 years ago, it was wonderfully inspiring and easy to work with Mama Afrika - Happy Women's Day!

The Boundary Pushing MIAGI Orchestra and our conductor David Panzl in the Great Hall of the Alte Oper Frankfurt, togethe...
16/07/2026

The Boundary Pushing MIAGI Orchestra and our conductor David Panzl in the Great Hall of the Alte Oper Frankfurt, together with Dr Helmut Häuser, the CEO and Chairman of the Board of one of Podium Zukunft’s main sponsors, the W***y Robert Pitzer Stiftung and Dr. Markus Fein, Artistic Director and CEO of the Alte Oper Frankfurt.

What better occasion could there have been for the MIAGI Orchestra’s debut at the Alte Oper Frankfurt than to perform th...
14/07/2026

What better occasion could there have been for the MIAGI Orchestra’s debut at the Alte Oper Frankfurt than to perform the closing concert of their festival Podium Zukunft!

Violinists - this is an opportunity for you!
08/07/2026

Violinists - this is an opportunity for you!

16/06/2026

Some MIAGI Orchestra members post concert jamming with The Lion Sleeps Tonight in the foyer of the Alte Oper in Frankfurt.

And if you have not yet done so, we warmly recommend checking out Mbube the original version by Solomon Linda & The Evening Birds - i.e. the actual origin of The Lion Sleeps Tonight, as recorded by the group in 1939 https://youtu.be/mrrQT4WkbNE?si=FomLMi-2wDJZZWP4

Starting in a few minutes at Fine Music Radio - tune in already at 09h00, follow this link: https://iono.fm/s/6 ❤️
24/05/2026

Starting in a few minutes at Fine Music Radio - tune in already at 09h00, follow this link: https://iono.fm/s/6 ❤️

Tune in tomorrow morning | 09:20 | Fine Music Radio 101.3 fm | https://iono.fm/s/6 !
23/05/2026

Tune in tomorrow morning | 09:20 | Fine Music Radio 101.3 fm | https://iono.fm/s/6 !

18/05/2026

MIAGI Orchestra's strings, conducted by David Panzl, rehearsing the warm, melancholic 'Andante Moderato' by Florence Price at the Podium Zukunft Festival at the Alte Oper Frankfurt - we performed the festival's final concert on 27 April 2026.

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