Chineke! Orchestra
Championing change and celebrating diversity in classical music
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Founded in 2015 by Chi-chi Nwanoku CBE, the Chineke! Orchestra is Europe’s first majority Black and ethnically diverse orchestra.
‘That exclamation mark says it all. Chineke! likes to startle and amaze with the sheer joyousness of its music-making’
The Daily Telegraph
Synonymous with the Southbank Centre from the very beginning, Chineke! Orchestra launched right here, in our Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Autumn/Winter 2024/25
Chineke! Orchestra: Phenomenal Women
Performers
Chineke! Orchestra
conductor to be announced
soloists to be announced
Repertoire
Eleanor Alberga: Overture, Jupiter's fairground
A Coleridge-Taylor: Sussex Landscape, Op.27
Valerie Coleman: Concerto for wind quintet & chamber orchestra (Phenomenal Women)
Interval
Price: Symphony No.4 in D minor
Chineke! Orchestra: Cultural Harmonies
Performers
Chineke! Orchestra
Kevin John Edusei conductor
Isata Kanneh-Mason piano
Repertoire
Derrick Skye: Prisms, Cycles, Leaps
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.3
Interval
Brian Raphael Nabors: Concerto for Orchestra
Chineke! Orchestra Celebrates a Decade
Performers
Chineke! Orchestra
Repertoire
Hannah Kendall: The spark catchers
James B Wilson: Free-man
Ayanna Witter-Johnson: Blush
Julian Joseph: Carry that sound
Roderick Williams: 3 Songs from Ethiopia Boy for voice & orchestra
.: Song of the Prophets: A Requiem for the Climate
Ayanna Witter-Johnson: Creation (1st movement)
Daniel Kidane: Ruin (2nd movement)
Shirley Thompson: Recovery (3rd movement)
Roderick Williams: Redemption (4th movement)
James B Wilson: Remnants