Tag: Chineke! Orchestra

  • Chi-chi Nwanoku: ‘I want black musicians to walk on to the stage and know they belong’ The Guardian 2015-06-02 Chi-chi Nwanoku Chi-chi Nwanoku: ‘I feel sure that bringing a group of people together to play incredible music is a creatively powerful and positive thing.’ Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi For 30 years, double bassist Chi-chi Nwanoku has…

  • NEW TO YOUTUBE | Chineke! – Europe’s First Black Orchestra Concert Debut [VIDEO] The Violin Channel 2015-09-15 Debut concert performance of the Chineke! Orchestra – Europe’s first professional orchestra made up entirely of musicians of colour. The 60-piece ensemble, founded by British double bassist Chichi Nwanoku, was established with the objective of making a conscious…

  • First black and minority ethnic orchestra to make debut BBC News 2015-09-11 Lizo Mzimba Europe’s first professional orchestra consisting entirely of black and minority ethnic musicians will make its debut this weekend at the Southbank Centre in London. The Chineke orchestra has been created to promote diversity in a musical world that is predominantly white.…

  • Chineke! Europe’s first professional orchestra of black and minority ethnic musicians launches The Independent 2015-09-02 Jessica Duchen Its founder double-bassist Chi-chi Nwanoku talks to Jessica Duchen When the Chineke! Orchestra steps on to the Queen Elizabeth Hall platform on 13 September, the audience should notice something unusual. One of those uncomfortable truths about classical music…