New York, NY, 30 April, 2008- Oxford University Press is pleased to announce the release of the third volume in this unique collection dedicated to the piano music of the African Diaspora. The series is available in five separate volumes for easier accessibility. Included alongside well-known works are pieces which are hard to find, out of print, or have never been published.
The collection is graded - Volume 1: Early-intermediate; Volume 2: Intermediate; Volume 3: Early-Advanced; Volumes 4 and 5: Advanced - and includes pieces by African composers now living in Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Egypt, Nigeria, USA, Congo, Ghana, South Africa, Cuba, Brazil, Virgin Islands, and Haiti. This collection can be used as a supplement to keyboard literature courses in universities and colleges.
Dr. William Chapman Nyaho is an active international performer, scholar, teacher, and clinician. Born in Washington, D.C., raised in Ghana and now living in Seattle, Chapman Nyaho holds degrees from Oxford University, Conservatoire de Musique de Geneve, the Eastman School of Music, and the University of Texas, Austin. He is a winner of prizes from the Joanna Hodges International Piano Competition and the Ibla Grand Prize International Competition in Italy. He is a regular guest clinician, giving master classes, presentations, lecture-recitals, and workshops advocating music by composers of the African Diaspora in elementary to high schools, and also colleges and universities.
For more information, please contact the Oxford Music Department at (212) 726-6109 or email music.us@oup.com. Vol. 3 is available now at the price of $19.95.
'These important publications will bring immeasurable pleasure to musicians and music lovers and limitless credit to Dr. Chapman Nyaho. He has done a Herculean job finding, identifying and collecting this rich music. Without his skill and fervor, this precious trove of music may have been lost.' - Dr. Maya Angelou [Dr. William H. Chapman Nyaho (b. 1958) is profiled at AfriClassical.com]
Piano Music of Africa & African Diaspora
Oxford University Press Anthology
William H. Chapman Nyaho
Edited by Chapman Nyaho
Ghanaian-American Classical Pianist
Composers of African Descent
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