Chi-chi Nwanoku

Chi-Chi Nwanoku
CBE
Birth nameChinyere Adah Nwanoku
BornJune 1956 (age 68)
Fulham, London, England
Websitewww.chineke.org/our-founder

Chinyere Adah "Chi-Chi" Nwanoku CBE (/ˈtʃɪtʃi ˈnwænoʊkuː/; born June 1956) is a British double bassist and professor of Historical Double Bass Studies at the Royal Academy of Music. Nwanoku was a founder member and principal bassist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, a position she held for 30 years.[1]

Of Nigerian and Irish descent, she is the founder and Artistic Director of the Chineke! Orchestra, the first professional orchestra & junior orchestra in Europe to be made up of a majority of Black and ethnically diverse musicians.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference RAM was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Chi-chi Nwanoku's Chineke! Orchestra Debuts Sept. 13 at Southbank Center", Classicalite, 23 July 2015.
  3. ^ "Chi-chi Nwanoku: 'I want black musicians to walk on to the stage and know they belong'", The Guardian, 2 June 2015.
  4. ^ Jessica Duchen, "Chineke! Europe's first professional orchestra of black and minority ethnic musicians launches", The Independent, 1 September 2015.