Rebeca Omordia
Antony Barlow writes:
Rebeca
Omordia, the prize-winning classical pianist, has been appointed
Artistic Director of the first ever African concert series at the
October Gallery in
Old
Gloucester St, Bloomsbury, London WC1,
especially to curate a music programme that reflects the depth and
diversity of African Art Music, the richly diverse genre of music
that originated in Ghana and Nigeria, which forms a bridge between
Western classical music and traditional African music.
Beginning
on February 13th,
with Omordia herself playing music by Ayo Bankele, Fred
Onovwerosuoke, Akin Euba and Christian Onyeji, the series will be
monthly on March 30, May 2 and June 20.
The
March programme is an Evening
of African Song
with Victoria Oruwari, soprano and award-winning pianist, Adam Heron
featuring Nigerian folk songs and Yoruba Songs, as well as songs by
the London based Jamaican composer Shirley Thompson OBE.
May’s
concert The
South African Double Bass features
Leon Bosch, the well-known South African Bass player, with Omordia at
the piano, playing music by Michael Viljoen, Peter Klatzow, David
Earl and McLachlan.
The
final programme in June, African
Pianism will
be a recital by Adam Heron, who reached the finals of the BBC young
musician of the Year in 2018, playing pieces by Nketia, Euba, as well
as Albeniz and Bartók.
Rebeca
Omordia was born in Romania to a Romanian mother and a Nigerian
father and is a great advocate of Nigerian classical music, which
featured on her recent CD ‘EKELE’ (HTGCD)
The
concerts are at 7.30pm and tickets @ £10.0 can be obtained from
Eventbrite or enquiries at Vicky.itt@gmail.com
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