Franco Prinsloo is an award winning composer from Pretoria, South Africa. He creates in a diverse variety of contemporary classical styles with a specific focus on choral music, vocal music and music for theatre. He has been the Musical Director for the Nedbank Arts and Culture Trust Performing Arts Scholarships from 2014 to the present. In 2019 he received the prestigious ACT IMPACT AWARD for Young Professionals. For his soundtrack to the film, Wonderlus, Prinsloo was nominated for the prestige Silwerskermfees award for best original score in an Afrikaans feature film. He has been commissioned by prominent choirs including: The King’s Singers; Kammerchor | Vocalisti (Hans-Joachim Lustig) and the acclaimed overtone singer Anna-Maria Hefele; The Akustika Chamber Singers (Christo Burger); The University of Stellenbosch Choir (André van der Merwe); The University of Pretoria Camarata (Michael Barrett). Prinsloo established and conducts the chamber choir, Vox Chamber Choir, in 2017. The choir received a golden medal at the Interkultur World Choir Games in Tswane in 2018 and another golden medal at the International Anton Bruckner competition in Linz, Austria in 2019, during Vox Chamber Choir’s tour of Europe. The Choir performed in notable venues and premiered Prinsloo’s new mass, Missa Brevis “San Marco” in the Basilica San Marco in Venice, Italy. His choral piece, Pula, Pula!, was commissioned by the NWU PUK Arts for the King’s Singers to be performed in 2017.