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Product Description This album consists of music from the first two volumes of Piano Music of Africa and the African Diaspora, which I compiled and edited for Oxford University Press in 2007. Since the publication of the anthology, there has been great demand by piano teachers for recordings of this virtually unknown music. It is my hope that this album of intermediate pieces will be useful to teachers interested in introducing this wonderful piano music by composers of African descent to their students. I invite listeners to go on a musical journey of this delightful music, rich and diverse, from Africa and its diaspora. I chose the word 'Kete' as the title of the album because it has two meanings in the two different cultures from which my parents originate. First, 'Kete' is one of the most complex, intricate and highly symbolic dances from the royal courts of the Akan people. 'Kete' is also the name of a particularly beautiful fabric of the Ewe people, woven in strips on a loom and then sewn together to create beautiful patterns. This album reflects the weaving together of music by people of African descent, spread across the entire globe. Gye Nyame! Mawu koe! William H. Chapman Nyaho [February 2020] William Chapman Nyaho maintains a diverse and distinguished career as a performer and educator. Chapman Nyaho is an active solo recitalist, duo pianist and chamber musician giving recitals and concerts in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and in cities across the United States, where he advocates music by composers of African descent. He is active as a guest clinician at colleges and universities, and also serves as an adjudicator for national and international piano competitions. Chapman Nyaho has served on national committees for the College Music Society, the Music Teachers' National Association and the National Endowment for the Arts. His professional experience includes being a North Carolina Visiting Artist and Associate Professor of Music at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette where he held the Heymann Endowed Professorship and was the recipient of the Distinguished Professor Award. He has served as Visiting Professor of Piano at Colby College in Maine, Artist-in-Residence at Willamette University in Oregon and piano professor at Adamant Music School in Vermont. Chapman Nyaho currently serves on the piano faculty at Pacific Lutheran University as well as on the summer faculty of Interlochen Center for the Arts. A leading advocate for music of Africa and its diaspora, he compiled and edited a five-volume music anthology, Piano Music of Africa and the African Diaspora (Oxford University Press). Chapman Nyaho studied at Achimota School, Ghana, and went on to earn his degrees from St. Peter's College, Oxford University, the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester and the University of Texas at Austin. He also studied at the Conservatoire de Musique de Geneve in Switzerland. Chapman Nyaho currently runs his private piano studio in Seattle, Washington and teaches students of all levels. His students have been prizewinners at competitions and have been well placed in universities and colleges. Review Nyaho makes a powerful case for the African diaspora as a musical unity. --All Music Guide Nyaho plays it all with beauty of tone and consummate artistry. --Fanfare
