Fred Onovwerosuoke
Composer
Caprice for Piano and Orchestra
Caprice for Piano and Orchestra
Fred Onovwerosuoke
Commissioned by Coro Allegro, Boston, MA
for Darryl Hollister
African Musical Arts
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About Fred Onovwerosuoke, composer
Award-winning composer Fred Onovwerosuoke ("Fredo," as most friends and colleagues call him) was born in Ghana to Nigerian parents. Onovwerosuoke grew up in both home countries and eventually naturalized in the United States. His influences are wide and varied, and is much at home discussing Handel, Mozart and Jazz, as he is talking about the African gonje, mbira, kora, kontingu and balafon riffs, or foremost exponents of traditional African music. FredO's works have been featured in a variety of recordings, films, documentaries and radio, including Robert De Niro's film, The Good Shepherd, Niyi Coker's Pennies for the Boatman, IMI Chamber Players' Dances & Rhapsodies: Works for Wind Quintet, William-Chapman Nyaho's CD, ASA, Hymes/Hollister's CD African Art Music for Flute, Peter Henderson's CD, Twenty-Four Studies in African Rhythms for Piano, among others. His book, Songs of Africa: 22 Pieces for Mixed Choirs published by Oxford University Press has quickly become a favorite among choral directors across the United States and globally, and his Twenty-four Studies in African Rhythms is acclaimed as one of the most-demanded African-rhythm influenced piano studies known. FredO is a Fellow of the Regional Arts Commission. For more information, please visit www.fredomusic.com.
Fred Onovwerosuoke is represented by IMI Artists (www.imusici.net).
About Darryl Hollister, pianist
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Darryl Hollister was born in Detroit, Michigan. He attended Michigan State University, where he studied with Ralph Votapek and Deborah Moriarty. He received his Master’s Degree from New England Conservatory of Music, working with Patricia Zander. Touring with the program “Sharing a New Song,” Mr. Hollister performed as accompanist and soloist in Russia, Georgia, Estonia, Ukraine, and Armenia. Mr. Hollister is an active accompanist and performer with many well-known choral groups in the Boston area and regularly performs with Coro Allegro, Dedham Choral Society, the Heritage Chorale in Framingham, and the choruses of Commonwealth School.
Mr. Hollister is considered one of the leading interpreters of African classical piano music. He has premiered works of many outstanding African composers such as Akin Euba, Joshua Uzoigwe, Fred Onovwerosuoke, and many others. He has performed recitals of African and African- American piano music in Pittsburgh, Washington D.C., St. Louis, London and Cambridge, England. He and flutist Wendy Hymes have recorded a CD entitled African Art Music for Flute, and has toured throughout the Caribbean, South Africa, and England with soprano Dawn Padmore in recitals of African and African-American music. He is founder of the world music ensemble Mundial whose performances highlight the works of African and African-American composers.
Mr. Hollister is considered one of the leading interpreters of African classical piano music. He has premiered works of many outstanding African composers such as Akin Euba, Joshua Uzoigwe, Fred Onovwerosuoke, and many others. He has performed recitals of African and African- American piano music in Pittsburgh, Washington D.C., St. Louis, London and Cambridge, England. He and flutist Wendy Hymes have recorded a CD entitled African Art Music for Flute, and has toured throughout the Caribbean, South Africa, and England with soprano Dawn Padmore in recitals of African and African-American music. He is founder of the world music ensemble Mundial whose performances highlight the works of African and African-American composers.
| About David Hodgkins, conductor & music director |
photo by Susan Wilson
Artistic
Director David Hodgkins has delighted audiences in the greater Boston
area for over 20 years with "creative programs, sung with enthusiasm and
tonal beauty" (Ed Tapper, Bay Windows). Mr. Hodgkins is the Artistic
Director of Coro Allegro in Boston, which Boston Globe critic Michael
Manning deemed "one of Boston's most accomplished choruses,” Artistic
Director of The New England Classical Singers in Andover, Director of
Music at The Commonwealth School in Boston, advanced conducting
instructor at the Kodály Music Institute,his ensembles have collaborated
with the Boston Celebrity Series, Boston Cecilia, Handel and Haydn
Society, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, The New England String Ensemble,
and the Boston Landmarks Orchestra.
Mr. Hodgkins has conducted numerous world and Boston premiere performances of works ranging from Marianne Martinez to Arvo Pärt. Mr. Hodgkins with Coro Allegro received the 2012 Chorus America Alice Parker/ASCAP Award for their collaborative premiere performance of Kareem Roustom’s oratorio Son of Man, with The United Parish Church of Brookline and Music Director Susan DeSelms, a work commissioned by United Parish. That same year, Mr. Hodgkins with Coro Allegro released the critically acclaimed CDs Awakenings and In Paradisum on the Navona label, which feature contemporary composers Robert Stern, Ronald Perera, and Patricia Van Ness and soloists Sanford Sylvan and Ruth Cunningham. Gramophone magazine noted of Awakenings that "Coro Allegro, led by David Hodgkins, performs each score with fine balance and interplay." Mr. Hodgkins has been featured in Choral Director Magazine, The Voice of Chorus America, UMass Amherst Magazine, and Haverhill Life. He has served as producer for three award-winning CDs by La Donna Musicale, Laury Gutiérrez, Artistic Director, In the Style of… for Terry Everson, trumpet, and Shiela Kibbe, piano on Albany Records, and a CD of trumpet concerti for the Boston University Wind Ensemble and Terry Everson, directed by David Martins. About Coro Allegro
Hola Senor Bill! Thank you so much. We're all indebted to your indefatigable service spreading the word about our humble contributions. Again, much gratitude... Fredo [Fred Onovwerosuoke] |
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