Senku - Piano Music by Composers of African Descent

Track Listings

1. Ukom
2. Lulu
3. Egwu Amala
4. No.1
5. No.2
6. No.3
7. Scherzo
8. Deep River
9. Troubled Water
10. Variations on an Egyptian Folksong
11. Prelude: Night
12. His Song
13. Honey: Humoresque
14. Barcarolle: Morning
15. Dance: Juba
16. Earthbeats, Op.22

Editorial Reviews
Fanfare, May/June 2004
"There is much wonderful music to be discovered here. This disc is highly recommended."

Gramophone, March 2004
"played with superior expressivity, rhythmic vivacity and kaleidoscopic shading."

Album Description
William H. Chapman Nyaho, a Ghanaian American, was schooled in Ghana, and later received degrees from St. Peter's College, Oxford University, Eastman School of Music and the University of Texas at Austin. He also studied at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève. Following a four-year residency as a North Carolina Visiting Artist, Chapman Nyaho taught at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He was the recipient of the 1998 University of Southwestern Louisiana Distinguished Professor Award and the 1998 Acadiana Arts Council Distinguished Artist Award, and held the Heymann Endowed Professorship.

Chapman Nyaho's performing experience includes recitals in Africa, Europe, North America and the Caribbean. He has performed as soloist with orchestras across the southern United States. Among his engagements, which include performing chamber music, Nyaho performs regularly as duo pianist with the Nyaho/Garcia Duo which has released a compact disc titled "Aaron Copland: Music For Two Pianos". Chapman Nyaho has been featured on radio and television broadcasts in Ghana, Switzerland, and National Public Radio in the USA. He developed and hosted The Bach Show for the classical radio station KRVS in Louisiana.

Chapman Nyaho is presently an independent scholar, teacher and concert pianist residing in the Pacific Northwest of the USA. He is a regular guest clinician at colleges and universities, giving lecture-recitals and holding workshops advocating music by composers of the African Diaspora. He also serves as adjudicator for national and international piano competitions.

Senku - Piano Music by Composers of African Descent

Senku - Piano Music by Composers of African Descent, Music, Gamal Abdel-Rahim, Margaret Bonds, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, R. Nathaniel Dett, Emmanuel Gyimah Labi, Coleridge Taylor Perkinson, Oswald Russell, Joshua Uzoigwe, William Chapman Nyaho, Chamber Music & Recitals, Classical, Classical Collections-Composer Desc., Keyboard, Music for Keyboard

Average customer rating: An impressive collection, stunningly performed Colorful, Creative, Brilliant!!!

Senku - Piano Music by Composers of African Descent Manufacturer: MSR Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Coleridge-Taylor: Perkinson - A Celebration Soulscapes: Piano Music by African American Women William Grant Still: Afro-American Symphony; In Memoriam; Africa (Symphonic Poem) ASIN: B0000WZY5O Release Date: 2003-10-21

Tracks:

1. Ukom
2. Lulu
3. Egwu Amala
4. No.1
5. No.2
6. No.3
7. Scherzo
8. Deep River
9. Troubled Water
10. Variations on an Egyptian Folksong
11. Prelude: Night
12. His Song
13. Honey: Humoresque
14. Barcarolle: Morning
15. Dance: Juba
16. Earthbeats, Op.22

Album Description

Chapman Nyaho's performing experience includes recitals in Africa, Europe, North America and the Caribbean. He has performed as soloist with orchestras across the southern United States. Among his engagements, which include performing chamber music, Nyaho performs regularly as duo pianist with the Nyaho/Garcia Duo which has released a compact disc titled "Aaron Copland: Music For Two Pianos". Chapman Nyaho has been featured on radio and television broadcasts in Ghana, Switzerland, and National Public Radio in the USA. He developed and hosted The Bach Show for the classical radio station KRVS in Louisiana.

Chapman Nyaho is presently an independent scholar, teacher and concert pianist residing in the Pacific Northwest of the USA. He is a regular guest clinician at colleges and universities, giving lecture-recitals and holding workshops advocating music by composers of the African Diaspora. He also serves as adjudicator for national and international piano competitions.

Customer Reviews:

An impressive collection, stunningly performed.......2004-04-07

But don't get me wrong...these are not intellectual exercises in nationalism. Each piece stands on its own musically, and the variety here makes this a compelling and wonderful CD from start to finish.

Colorful, Creative, Brilliant!!!.......2003-12-03

This is such a recording.

I approached this CD with a desire to explore a back road of art music, in the hopes that I might find a hidden gem of inspiration, or even a piece to perform myself (I am also a pianist). What I found instead was a superhighway of talent and creativity that has somehow remained overlooked by the "mainstream" art music world.

Pianist Nyaho Chapman presents us with an astonishing variety of compositions, ranging from the more conservative "In The Bottoms Suite" of Robert Nathaniel Dett or Margaret Bond's Troubled Water, to the more abstract "Talking Drums" of Joshua Uzoigwe or Earthbeats of Gyimah Labi. Mr. Chapman's performance of Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson's Scherzo surely proves him as one of the more brilliant pianists on the circuit. The piece is as relentless as it is physically demanding. And, like the other works on this disk, it is recorded with clarity and precision.

I highly recommend this CD to anyone wishing to enrich their musical life.

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