Friday, October 17, 2008

William Chapman Nyaho, Ghanaian-American Pianist, Performs at Gallo Center Oct. 22

The Modesto Bee
Friday, October 17, 2008
The Modesto Community Concert Association series continues with a performance by pianist William Chapman Nyaho. The program is at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 22, 2008 in the Rogers Theater at the Gallo Center for the Arts, 1000 I St., Modesto. A Ghanaian-American, now living in Seattle, he studied at Achimota School in Ghana, West Africa, and at Oxford University, England, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree at the Honour School of Music. He continued his piano studies at the Conservatoire de Musique de Geneve, Switzerland, the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., where he received his master's degree, and at the University of Texas at Austin, where he received his doctorate degree. Tickets to his Gallo show are $25; 338-2100 or http:/www.galloarts.org.”

William Chapman Nyaho's website is http://www.Nyaho.com He is also profiled at AfriClassical.com Dr. Nyaho's credits include a remarkable 5-volume anthology of sheet music published by Oxford University Press, Piano Music of Africa and the African Diaspora. His first solo piano CD of works of composers of African descent is Senku, Musicians Showcase 1091 (2003). Nyaho's newest recording is ASA: Piano Music by Composers of African Descent; MSR Classics MS1242 (2008). The composers represented on the CD come from the far corners of the African Diaspora.






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