Education
Born in South Africa, Kloppers completed his Doctorate in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Jacobus Kloppers
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Career
He has composed many notable pieces, especially for organ, and has been the subject of substantial scholarship. In 1966, Kloppers returned to South Africa to teach, compose and perform. He immigrated to Canada with his family in the mid-1970s in protest to the Apartheid policy.
Kloppers settled in Edmonton, Canada, and worked as a private instructor and church musician.
In 1978, he was interviewed for a part-time position at a small Christian college, The King"s University College (Edmonton), that was to open the next year. The college hired him full-time to develop a music program
He taught organ, music history, and musicology and was chair of the music program until his retirement in 2008. Kloppers was important in Edmonton"s Winspear Centre acquiring the Davis Concert Organ, a world-renowned instrument.
In 2009, Kloppers was inducted into Edmonton"s Cultural Hall of Fame.
In 2011, the University of the Free State began a project to collect and house a complete collection of Kloppers" work.
Membership
Kloppers is also an Adjunct Professor of Organ at the University of Alberta, an Honorary Fellow of the RCCO, the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the Canadian League of Composers.
