[Dr. Oyebade
Dosunmu]
Dr. Oyebade Dosunmu leads the Fela Sowande Singers in the ensemble's debut performance this evening at 8:00 p.m. in Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh.
Dr.
Oyebade Dosunmu straddles multiple spheres of creative and academic
discourse. Holding a B.A (Music Performance) from Obafemi Awolowo
University and a PhD (Ethnomusicology) from the University of
Pittsburgh, he is actively engaged in music(ological) circles in
Nigeria and abroad. In Nigeria, he is a long standing member of the
prestigious Laz Ekwueme Choral, and has featured as tenor soloist in
such venues as the Arch Bishop Vining Memorial Cathedral (performing
Mozart’s Twelfth Mass) and the MUSON center’s Agip Hall
(performing Handel’s Messiah and other works). In the fall of 2009,
Oyebade performed a selection of Joshua Uzoigwe’s vocal solos at
the Chatham University Music Festival ‘Sounds of Africa’ held in
Pittsburgh. Last summer he revisited the same demanding repertoire at
the Symposium and Festival of the Center for Intercultural Music at
Churchill College, Cambridge, England. He has directed various
choirs, and in 2005 formed Elekoto, a Pittsburgh-based African choral
music ensemble. Oyebade is well at home with both African and Western
art music repertoires, and is currently a choral scholar at St.
Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Outside
the scope of performance, Oyebade is actively engaged in a wide range
of scholarly pursuits. He has taught several music courses at the
University of Pittsburgh; has delivered papers at various academic
conferences internationally; contributed a chapter to the
Festschrift, Multiple Interpretations of Dynamics of Creativity and
Knowledge in African Music Traditions; and written for non-profit
organizations. Oyebade is the recipient of several awards, including
the 2007 Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship.
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