The orchestra is a section 21 company and is based in the Wozani Block on the Wits Education Campus, Parktown.
The Milpark Hospital is a private hospital in Parktown West, Johannesburg, owned by Netcare Limited.
Born in Cape Town to Major James Lister and Margaret (née Hogan), Lister was educated at the Parktown Convent of the Holy Family, Johannesburg.
It is one of the older residential areas of the Northern Suburbs, having been created as a residential area for the poorer relatives of the Randlords who had built their mansions on Parktown Ridge during the early days of the Rand gold rush (during the 1890s).