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Stephanus Muller received his undergraduate musical training at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He changed the focus of his music studies in 1993 from piano performance to musicology, and holds masters degrees in musicology from the University of South Africa and Oxford University. In 2001 he was awarded a DPhil from Oxford University before returning to South Africa in the same year. Elected as the chairperson of the Musicological Society of Southern Africa in 2004, he was instrumental in merging this society with the Ethnomusicology Symposium in 2006. After his appointment as lecturer at Stellenbosch University in 2005, he created the Documentation Centre for Music (DOMUS) as a research and music heritage conservation initiative. Since then, DOMUS has acquired some of the most important and valuable archives of individuals and institutions pertaining to South African music, making it a unique repository of recorded music, scores and archival documents on the African continent. In 2016, he founded the interdisciplinary Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation (AOI) in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Stellenbosch University (http://aoinstitute.ac.za), a unique organized research unit dedicated to advancing music studies in South Africa and in Africa. Since his appointment at Stellenbosch University, Muller has supervised groundbreaking studies by a new generation of South African music scholars, many of whom have gone on to study at prestigious universities abroad or occupy teaching positions at South African universities. He is currently the project leader and principal investigator of the project Africa Open: Institute for Music, Research and Innovation, an ambitious institutional project that responds to the challenges and opportunities of music studies in South Africa.

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