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Chineke! Orchestra, Thursday, April 3, 2025 7:30PM
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Date
Thursday, April 3, 2025 7:30PM
Name
Chineke! Orchestra
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Presented by CAMA
Chi-chi Nwanoku CBE, Founder & Artistic Director, Chineke!
Vimbayi Kaziboni, conductor
Aaron Azunda Akugbo, trumpet
The Chineke! Orchestra, whose motto is “championing change and celebrating diversity in classical music,” is one of Britain’s most exciting new orchestras. It was founded in London in 2015 by double bassist Chi-chi Nwanoku CBE to provide career opportunities at the highest level for Black and ethnically diverse classical musicians in the UK and Europe. They are currently a Resident Orchestra at London’s Southbank Centre, and their 2023 BBC Proms concert at the Royal Albert Hall featured musicians from 40 different countries. They have performed to great critical acclaim at leading European festivals such as the Lucerne and Edinburgh Festivals, as well as in the US and Canada. Zimbabwean-born conductor Vimbayi Kaziboni, Assistant Professor of Orchestral Studies and Contemporary Music at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, is widely sought after by top orchestras around the globe for his depth of approach, interpretive imagination, and expressivity. For its Santa Barbara debut, the Chineke! Orchestra presents an evening of compelling works by Black composers, and Franz Joseph Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto in E-flat featuring Aaron Azunda Akugbo, a founding member of Connaught Brass.
PROGRAM:
COLEMAN: 7 o’clock Shout
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: A Sussex Landscape
HAYDN: Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra in E-flat Major, Hob.VIIe:1
NABORS: Pulse for Orchestra
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Symphony in A Minor
Ticket price includes a $6 Granada Facility Fee.