Wigmore Hall: 1 June 10 PM Chineke! Orchestra Beethoven, Florence Price & Strauss

Chineke! Orchestra

(Copyright Eric Richmond)

Sergio A. Mims writes:

Members of the Chineke! Orchestra will make their debut at the famous and legendary Wigmore Hall concert hall in London in a chamber music program of Richard Strauss, Beethoven and Florence Price, the first time her music will be performed and heard at Wigmore Hall.

Wigmore Hall

• Chineke! Orchestra
• Mariam Adam clarinet
• Linton Stephens bassoon
• Nicolas Fleury horn
• Priya Mitchell violin
• Braimah Kanneh-Mason violin
• Clifton Harrison viola
• Ashok Klouda cello
• Chi-chi Nwanoku OBE double bass

Chineke! stormed last summer’s BBC Proms with a sensational debut, one of many opportunities it creates for young Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) classical musicians. As Europe’s first majority-BME orchestra, the Chineke! Orchestra performs a mixture of standard orchestral repertoire along with the works of BME composers both past and present.

Its Wigmore debut includes impassioned music by Florence Price, the first African-American woman to break through as a symphonic composer.

•  Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
  • • Septet in E flat major Op. 20
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• Florence Price (1887-1953)
  • • String Quartet in G major (European première)
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• Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
  • • Till Eulenspiegel einmal anders (arr. Hasenöhrl)