Chi-chi Nwanoku

Chi-Chi Nwanoku
CBE
Born
Chinyere Adah Nwanoku

June 1956 (age 69)
Fulham, London, England
OccupationsDouble bassist; founder and artistic director of Chineke! Orchestra
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.

Of Nigerian and Irish descent, she was 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.

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