https://limelightmagazine.com.au/competitions/win-tickets-to-chineke-chamber-ensemble/We are giving away a double pass to Chineke! Chamber Ensemble's program featuring a world premiere composition by William Barton.
CHINEKE! CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
Performing at Adelaide Festival, 16–17 March
First a proactive foundation, then an orchestra, and now a movement, Chineke!, whose name translates as spirit of creation, has captivated the popular imagination, as evidenced by the wild response to every one of their four visits to the BBC Proms in recent years.
Chi-chi Nwanoku OBE, one of the UK’s finest exponents of the double bass, played in the cream of London’s chamber and period instrument orchestras for over 30 years. Of Nigerian-Irish heritage, her witnessing, in 2014, the revelation of the Kinshasa orchestra from the Congo playing to a typical traditional classical music audience triggered the birth of this unique platform for majority Black and ethnically diverse classical musicians.
A Chineke! concert guarantees three things: excellence, unadulterated joy and the discovery of great new (or neglected old) music. These two outstanding concerts feature the principal wind, horn and string players from the orchestra in every imaginable permutation, with Nonets and Quintets by Schubert (yes, The Trout), Rheinberger, Martinu and Prokofiev, alongside beautiful mini-orchestral pieces by the great British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and African-Americans William Grant Still and Valerie Coleman.
Part of the concerts will be two thrilling new Australian commissions, one from Deborah Cheetham and one from William Barton, who will appear with Chineke! in the World Premieres of his composition.
Enter now for your chance to win a double pass to the Wednesday 16 March, 8:30pm concert at Adelaide Town Hall thanks to Adelaide Festival.
Australian Competitions Club
