Friday, January 23, 2015

Dominique-René de Lerma: University of Chicago Arts Master Class: Chi-chi Nwanoku, Tuesday, February 10, 2015, 4 PM, Logan Center Penthouse, 9th Floor

Chi-chi Nwanoku
(Photo: University of Chicago)

Dominique-René de Lerma:

Date & Time

Tuesday, February 10, 2015
4:00 PM

Location

Logan Center, Performance Penthouse 901

Admission

FREE and open to the public

Contact

Music Department
773-702-8484

Description

About:
Chi-chi Nwanoku studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she received her Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music (LRCM) teacher’s and her ARCM (Associate of the Royal College of Music) performer’s with Honors. She was awarded the Principal’s Prize and the Eugene Cruft Double Bass Prize after graduating, and later won win four scholarships, including The Royal Society of Arts, to further her studies with Franco Petracchi in Rome.


She has become one of England’s most sought after double bassists, and has developed a worldwide reputation as one of the finest musicians on her instrument today.

Chi-chi's first professional position was as principal double bass with the London Mozart Players, and since then she has worked as principal and soloist with many of Europe’s prestigious chamber orchestras and ensembles. These include the Academy of St Martin’s-in-the-Fields, English Baroque Soloists, London Classical Players and the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique.

She is Principal Double Bass with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (of which she is also a founder member) and Endymion Ensemble. She is professor at the Royal Academy of Music, and gives masterclasses at music institutions worldwide.

UChicago Residency Schedule*:
Feb. 9
7pm

Black Cinema House (A program of Rebuld Foundation)
7200 S. Kimbark Ave., Chicago

"Chi-chi: Tales from the Base Line"
Dirs: Barrie Gavin & Chris Cox , UK, 50 min.

Barrie Gavin's and Chris Cox's compelling documentary portrait of Chi-chi Nwanoku, a world renowned virtuoso of one of the most challenging musical instruments, the double bass. The effervescent and indomitable Chi-chi recounts the hurdles she faced growing up as a mixed-race child and scaling the musical establishment in Britain, interspersed with luscious performances of Haydn, Berlioz, Elgar, Dvorak, and others.
Ms. Nwanoku will be in person at the screening for a Q&A afterward.

Feb. 10
12:00-1:30 pm
Currency Exchange Café

305 E. Garfield Blvd., Chicago

"Brownbag Discussion with Students"

4:00-6:00 pm
Logan Center, Penthouse (9th fl)
915 E. 60th St.

"Double bass Master Class"

Feb. 11
1:00-2:30 pm
Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture

5733 S. University Ave., Chicago

"Table Talk"
(lunch provided)


*Co-sponsored by the Department of Music, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, and Arts+Public Life.

---------------------------------
Dominique-René de Lerma

No comments:

Post a Comment