Philip Malan Research Paper

Philip Malan was born in Stellenbosch in 1987. He was exposed to music by his mother, who is a music teacher and lecturer, and his father who also plays the piano. He started playing the guitar at the age of 9 when his mother handed him her old guitar and taught him a few basic chords. He played without an official teacher for four years until he started lessons with Graham Pringle at the age of 13. It was at this time that he got his first electric guitar and started a band with his best friend. He ended up taking music as one of his subjects in high school with electric guitar as his instrument. Once he finished school in 2005, he went on to study a Bachelor of Music degree at Stellenbosch University. It was here that he was exposed to classical