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About Senku: Piano Music By Composers Of African Descent
Product Description 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 There is much wonderful music to be discovered here. This disc is highly recommended. --Fanfare Played with superior expressiveness, rhythmic vivacity and kaleidoscopic shading. --Gramophone Senku is a kaleidoscope of brilliant piano colors... strongly rhythmic... charming... The disc is a real ear-opener. --Seattle Times
