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Chineke! orchestra offers a commitment to programming black composers and a playing style reviewers have described as “sublime”. Photo: Zen Grizdale

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Chineke!

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The pioneering black and ethnic minority orchestra Chineke! will be darlings of the Albert Hall at their first Prom tomorrow night (30 August). Yet, as their charismatic artistic director Chi-chi Nwanoku points out, their mission to increase diversity in orchestral music has a long way to go. Nwanoku can count on one hand the number of Chineke! players with permanent positions in the symphony orchestras they usually play in. In Gender, Subjectivity, and Cultural Work: The Classical Music Profession, published this month, sociologist Dr Christina Scharff highlights that out of 629 players in 17 UK orchestras, only 11 individuals – just 1.7% – are identifiably from a BAME background. This compares to 8% BAME students at five leading conservatoires. A separate study by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors last year calculated that 6% of commissioned UK composers are BAME, less than half the BAME make-up of the population.

Read more at: https://inews.co.uk/essentials/colonise-opera-going-like-tiger-woods-williams-sisters/

The pioneering black and ethnic minority orchestra Chineke! will be darlings of the Albert Hall at their first Prom tomorrow night (30 August). Yet, as their charismatic artistic director Chi-chi Nwanoku points out, their mission to increase diversity in orchestral music has a long way to go. Nwanoku can count on one hand the number of Chineke! players with permanent positions in the symphony orchestras they usually play in.

Read more at: https://inews.co.uk/essentials/colonise-opera-going-like-tiger-woods-williams-sisters/

by Joshua Neicho

29th August 2017

The pioneering black and ethnic minority orchestra Chineke! will be darlings of the Albert Hall tomorrow night (30 August).

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Nwanoku can count on one hand the number of Chineke! players with permanent positions in the symphony orchestras they usually play in.

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The pioneering black and ethnic minority orchestra Chineke! will be darlings of the Albert Hall at their first Prom tomorrow night (30 August). Yet, as their charismatic artistic director Chi-chi Nwanoku points out, their mission to increase diversity in orchestral music has a long way to go. Nwanoku can count on one hand the number of Chineke! players with permanent positions in the symphony orchestras they usually play in.

Read more at: https://inews.co.uk/essentials/colonise-opera-going-like-tiger-woods-williams-sisters/

 

The pioneering black and ethnic minority orchestra Chineke! will be darlings of the Albert Hall at their first Prom tomorrow night (30 August). Yet, as their charismatic artistic director Chi-chi Nwanoku points out, their mission to increase diversity in orchestral music has a long way to go. Nwanoku can count on one hand the number of Chineke! players with permanent positions in the symphony orchestras they usually play in. In Gender, Subjectivity, and Cultural Work: The Classical Music Profession, published this month, sociologist Dr Christina Scharff highlights that out of 629 players in 17 UK orchestras, only 11 individuals – just 1.7% – are identifiably from a BAME background. This compares to 8% BAME students at five leading conservatoires. A separate study by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors last year calculated that 6% of commissioned UK composers are BAME, less than half the BAME make-up of the population.

Read more at: https://inews.co.uk/essentials/colonise-opera-going-like-tiger-woods-williams-sisters/

The pioneering black and ethnic minority orchestra Chineke! will be darlings of the Albert Hall at their first Prom tomorrow night (30 August). Yet, as their charismatic artistic director Chi-chi Nwanoku points out, their mission to increase diversity in orchestral music has a long way to go. Nwanoku can count on one hand the number of Chineke! players with permanent positions in the symphony orchestras they usually play in. In Gender, Subjectivity, and Cultural Work: The Classical Music Profession, published this month, sociologist Dr Christina Scharff highlights that out of 629 players in 17 UK orchestras, only 11 individuals – just 1.7% – are identifiably from a BAME background. This compares to 8% BAME students at five leading conservatoires. A separate study by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors last year calculated that 6% of commissioned UK composers are BAME, less than half the BAME make-up of the population.

Read more at: https://inews.co.uk/essentials/colonise-opera-going-like-tiger-woods-williams-sisters/

Chineke! orchestra offers a commitment to programming black composers and a playing style reviewers have described as “sublime”. Photo: Zen Grizdale

Read more at: https://inews.co.uk/essentials/colonise-opera-going-like-tiger-woods-williams-sisters/