Karendra Devroop is a jazz saxophonist and professor of music within the Dept of Music at the Faculty of Arts and Design at TUT. He is an NRF rated researcher who is regularly called upon as a peer-reviewer for the NRF, national and international journals and as postgraduate examiner in South Africa and internationally. In addition to his research, Devroop is a performing artist with 8 full length CD recordings as a leader and several recordings as a sideman with ensembles such as the Dallas Jazz Orchestra. He has performed at major festivals across the USA, Europe, Asia and Africa as side stage act for Chicago, Earth Wind and Fire and Jill Scott. In addition to having performed with several international artists such as Hans Vroomans, Hein van de Geyn, Matteo Mera, Dan Tepfer and Claudio Sanna amongst others, he has performed with South Africa’s leading jazz, classical and Pop artists including but not limited to Siboingile Khumalo, Nduduzo Makhathini, Fdey Faku, Vicky Samson, Jesse Clegg, MICASA and Zoe Modiga.