The African Concert Series
@africanseries.bsky.social
🪘🪈🎶The world's first ever home for African and Black classical music.
📍Wigmore Hall, London
📍Wigmore Hall, London
☔️☔️ African Art Song: “Ojo Maa Ro” (Let it Rain!) by Ayo Bankole
🎤Omo Bello
🎹 Rebeca Omordia 🪘 Richard Olatunde Baker
🎤Omo Bello
🎹 Rebeca Omordia 🪘 Richard Olatunde Baker
November 14, 2025 at 10:09 AM
☔️☔️ African Art Song: “Ojo Maa Ro” (Let it Rain!) by Ayo Bankole
🎤Omo Bello
🎹 Rebeca Omordia 🪘 Richard Olatunde Baker
🎤Omo Bello
🎹 Rebeca Omordia 🪘 Richard Olatunde Baker
Did you know?!
Nigerian composer Akin Euba wrote opera “Chaka: An Opera in Two Chants”, recorded and performed by the City of Birmingham Touring Opera.
Nigerian composer Akin Euba wrote opera “Chaka: An Opera in Two Chants”, recorded and performed by the City of Birmingham Touring Opera.
November 13, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Did you know?!
Nigerian composer Akin Euba wrote opera “Chaka: An Opera in Two Chants”, recorded and performed by the City of Birmingham Touring Opera.
Nigerian composer Akin Euba wrote opera “Chaka: An Opera in Two Chants”, recorded and performed by the City of Birmingham Touring Opera.
Akin Euba (1935–2020) was a distinguished Nigerian composer, musicologist, and pianist known as the pioneer of “African Pianism” and “creative ethnomusicology”. His work uniquely blended traditional African musical elements, especially Yoruba rhythms, with Western classical music techniques.
November 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Akin Euba (1935–2020) was a distinguished Nigerian composer, musicologist, and pianist known as the pioneer of “African Pianism” and “creative ethnomusicology”. His work uniquely blended traditional African musical elements, especially Yoruba rhythms, with Western classical music techniques.
Samuel Akpabot - Akwa-Ibom (1932–2000) was a renowned Nigerian composer, ethnomusicologist, author, and sports journalist. He is known for blending African traditional music and Western classical styles in his compositions, most notably his orchestral works.
November 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Samuel Akpabot - Akwa-Ibom (1932–2000) was a renowned Nigerian composer, ethnomusicologist, author, and sports journalist. He is known for blending African traditional music and Western classical styles in his compositions, most notably his orchestral works.
FELA SOWANDE (1905–1987)
ℹ️A prominent Nigerian musician, composer, organist, and educator, widely regarded as the “father of modern Nigerian art music”, his works effectively blending Western classical techniques with traditional African, particularly Yoruba, melodies and rhythms.
ℹ️A prominent Nigerian musician, composer, organist, and educator, widely regarded as the “father of modern Nigerian art music”, his works effectively blending Western classical techniques with traditional African, particularly Yoruba, melodies and rhythms.
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
FELA SOWANDE (1905–1987)
ℹ️A prominent Nigerian musician, composer, organist, and educator, widely regarded as the “father of modern Nigerian art music”, his works effectively blending Western classical techniques with traditional African, particularly Yoruba, melodies and rhythms.
ℹ️A prominent Nigerian musician, composer, organist, and educator, widely regarded as the “father of modern Nigerian art music”, his works effectively blending Western classical techniques with traditional African, particularly Yoruba, melodies and rhythms.
Part of our African flute series, the ọjà flute of the Igbo people of Nigeria plays a central role in their social, cultural & spiritual events. It is considered the “soul” of Igbo cultural music and is a key communication tool, often referred to as a “talking instrument”.
November 8, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Part of our African flute series, the ọjà flute of the Igbo people of Nigeria plays a central role in their social, cultural & spiritual events. It is considered the “soul” of Igbo cultural music and is a key communication tool, often referred to as a “talking instrument”.
🎶 Flautist Rowland Sutherland plays Okwanjula Kw’Endere (Introduction of the Flute) by composer Justinian Tamusuza (b. 1951, Uganda) 🇺🇬part of Music from East Africa Concert at @wigmore_hall on 21 March 2026.
November 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
🎶 Flautist Rowland Sutherland plays Okwanjula Kw’Endere (Introduction of the Flute) by composer Justinian Tamusuza (b. 1951, Uganda) 🇺🇬part of Music from East Africa Concert at @wigmore_hall on 21 March 2026.
When the European flute is used to express certain features of African traditional music, creating a new genre - African art music for flute, a blend of Western classical music and African traditional music. Nigerian composer Akin Euba is a leading figure of the Nigerian School of art music.
November 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
When the European flute is used to express certain features of African traditional music, creating a new genre - African art music for flute, a blend of Western classical music and African traditional music. Nigerian composer Akin Euba is a leading figure of the Nigerian School of art music.
The Fula flute, European flute and the balafon are increasingly found in cross-genre music,often in fusion collaborations that blend traditional West African music with Western styles, bridging the traditional West African scales with the chromatic possibilities of Western instruments.
November 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The Fula flute, European flute and the balafon are increasingly found in cross-genre music,often in fusion collaborations that blend traditional West African music with Western styles, bridging the traditional West African scales with the chromatic possibilities of Western instruments.
🪈🎶 Baba Gallé Kanté plays the Fula flute. Considered the national instrument of the Fulani people of West Africa, the Fula flute holds significant cultural value, used in traditional music for storytelling, ceremonies, and connecting with ancestral traditions.
November 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
🪈🎶 Baba Gallé Kanté plays the Fula flute. Considered the national instrument of the Fulani people of West Africa, the Fula flute holds significant cultural value, used in traditional music for storytelling, ceremonies, and connecting with ancestral traditions.
⭐️ Can you name African flutes? ⭐️
🪈The flute holds great significance in Africa for its roles in communication, spiritual practices and cultural expression.
⚱𓂀⚒🏺Flutes in Africa have a long history, with evidence of bone and reed flutes dating back to the Later Stone Age.
🪈The flute holds great significance in Africa for its roles in communication, spiritual practices and cultural expression.
⚱𓂀⚒🏺Flutes in Africa have a long history, with evidence of bone and reed flutes dating back to the Later Stone Age.
November 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
⭐️ Can you name African flutes? ⭐️
🪈The flute holds great significance in Africa for its roles in communication, spiritual practices and cultural expression.
⚱𓂀⚒🏺Flutes in Africa have a long history, with evidence of bone and reed flutes dating back to the Later Stone Age.
🪈The flute holds great significance in Africa for its roles in communication, spiritual practices and cultural expression.
⚱𓂀⚒🏺Flutes in Africa have a long history, with evidence of bone and reed flutes dating back to the Later Stone Age.
Jamaican Medley (excerpt) by Eleanor Alberga performed by Maria Thompson Corley | African Women at The African Concert Series at Wigmore Hall 2025.
#womencomposers #jamaican
#womencomposers #jamaican
August 25, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Jamaican Medley (excerpt) by Eleanor Alberga performed by Maria Thompson Corley | African Women at The African Concert Series at Wigmore Hall 2025.
#womencomposers #jamaican
#womencomposers #jamaican
Glorious ✨🎶Psalm to Windrush by Shirley J Thompson performed by Nadine Benjamin soprano & Maria Thompson Corley piano | African Women at The African Concert Series at Wigmore Hall 2025.
August 23, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Glorious ✨🎶Psalm to Windrush by Shirley J Thompson performed by Nadine Benjamin soprano & Maria Thompson Corley piano | African Women at The African Concert Series at Wigmore Hall 2025.
Dancing into the Bank Holiday weekend on Gambian rhythms. ✨🎶Tunde Jegede & the African Classical Music Ensemble | The African Concert Series at Wigmore Hall 2025
August 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Dancing into the Bank Holiday weekend on Gambian rhythms. ✨🎶Tunde Jegede & the African Classical Music Ensemble | The African Concert Series at Wigmore Hall 2025
Thank you to everyone who supported the 7th African Concert Series at Wigmore Hall and to those who attended our concerts!
See you in 2026 for another special series of concerts on 21 March!
See you in 2026 for another special series of concerts on 21 March!
July 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Thank you to everyone who supported the 7th African Concert Series at Wigmore Hall and to those who attended our concerts!
See you in 2026 for another special series of concerts on 21 March!
See you in 2026 for another special series of concerts on 21 March!
Maria Thompson Corley & Nadine Benjamin are sound checking ahead of this afternoon’s concert at Wigmore Hall.
🎶 Join us for a programme of music by women composers of African descent starting at 3pm. ✨
🎶 Join us for a programme of music by women composers of African descent starting at 3pm. ✨
July 19, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Maria Thompson Corley & Nadine Benjamin are sound checking ahead of this afternoon’s concert at Wigmore Hall.
🎶 Join us for a programme of music by women composers of African descent starting at 3pm. ✨
🎶 Join us for a programme of music by women composers of African descent starting at 3pm. ✨
Tunde Jegede, Jan Hendrickse and Vincent Ademola are sound checking ahead of this morning’s concert at @wigmore-hall.org.uk, starting a wonderful day of concerts.
🎶 Joins us from 11.30AM! ✨
🎶 Joins us from 11.30AM! ✨
July 19, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Tunde Jegede, Jan Hendrickse and Vincent Ademola are sound checking ahead of this morning’s concert at @wigmore-hall.org.uk, starting a wonderful day of concerts.
🎶 Joins us from 11.30AM! ✨
🎶 Joins us from 11.30AM! ✨
Thank you BBC Radio 3 for featuring us on In Tune ahead of our 19 July series at @wigmore-hall.org.uk
Did you hear @koroleko_moussa playing the balafon?
Join us for our concerts this Saturday!
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Did you hear @koroleko_moussa playing the balafon?
Join us for our concerts this Saturday!
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July 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Thank you BBC Radio 3 for featuring us on In Tune ahead of our 19 July series at @wigmore-hall.org.uk
Did you hear @koroleko_moussa playing the balafon?
Join us for our concerts this Saturday!
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Did you hear @koroleko_moussa playing the balafon?
Join us for our concerts this Saturday!
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🎶 19 July, 11.30AM at @wigmore-hall.org.uk
🌗 Moon Waters with Tunde Jegede.
🎫 £5 under 35s www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202...
🌗 Moon Waters with Tunde Jegede.
🎫 £5 under 35s www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202...
June 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM
🎶 19 July, 11.30AM at @wigmore-hall.org.uk
🌗 Moon Waters with Tunde Jegede.
🎫 £5 under 35s www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202...
🌗 Moon Waters with Tunde Jegede.
🎫 £5 under 35s www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202...
A new work by star- rising composer Nneka Cummmins, “Jiri Agba” will be premiered at @wigmore-hall.org.uk by Ubuntu Ensemble on 19 July. Jiri Agba, in Nigerian Igbo language expresses the concept of colourful work.
Many thanks to Hinrichsen Foundation for supporting the development of this work.
Many thanks to Hinrichsen Foundation for supporting the development of this work.
June 10, 2025 at 10:27 AM
A new work by star- rising composer Nneka Cummmins, “Jiri Agba” will be premiered at @wigmore-hall.org.uk by Ubuntu Ensemble on 19 July. Jiri Agba, in Nigerian Igbo language expresses the concept of colourful work.
Many thanks to Hinrichsen Foundation for supporting the development of this work.
Many thanks to Hinrichsen Foundation for supporting the development of this work.
Double bass virtuoso Leon Bosch introduces the Ubuntu Ensemble ahead of their performance at @wigmore-hall.org.uk on 19 July.
🎶 www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202... 🎫 £5 under 35s [sing up first]
🎶 www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202... 🎫 £5 under 35s [sing up first]
June 6, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Double bass virtuoso Leon Bosch introduces the Ubuntu Ensemble ahead of their performance at @wigmore-hall.org.uk on 19 July.
🎶 www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202... 🎫 £5 under 35s [sing up first]
🎶 www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202... 🎫 £5 under 35s [sing up first]
African Classical Music at @wigmore-hall.org.uk !
🗓️ Join us as we return with another day of concerts on 19 July!
🎫 £5 under 35s! www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/ser...
🗓️ Join us as we return with another day of concerts on 19 July!
🎫 £5 under 35s! www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/ser...
June 4, 2025 at 6:15 AM
African Classical Music at @wigmore-hall.org.uk !
🗓️ Join us as we return with another day of concerts on 19 July!
🎫 £5 under 35s! www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/ser...
🗓️ Join us as we return with another day of concerts on 19 July!
🎫 £5 under 35s! www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/ser...
🎶 Acclaimed Nigerian artist Gerald Eze, known as Ogbu-Ọjà, master performer of the Ọjà performs at the series on
🗓️ Saturday, 19 July, 7.30pm at @wigmore-hall.org.uk alongside @richardolatunde.bsky.social
@rebecaomordia.bsky.social & Ubuntu Ensemble
🎫 www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202...
🗓️ Saturday, 19 July, 7.30pm at @wigmore-hall.org.uk alongside @richardolatunde.bsky.social
@rebecaomordia.bsky.social & Ubuntu Ensemble
🎫 www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202...
May 23, 2025 at 7:53 AM
🎶 Acclaimed Nigerian artist Gerald Eze, known as Ogbu-Ọjà, master performer of the Ọjà performs at the series on
🗓️ Saturday, 19 July, 7.30pm at @wigmore-hall.org.uk alongside @richardolatunde.bsky.social
@rebecaomordia.bsky.social & Ubuntu Ensemble
🎫 www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202...
🗓️ Saturday, 19 July, 7.30pm at @wigmore-hall.org.uk alongside @richardolatunde.bsky.social
@rebecaomordia.bsky.social & Ubuntu Ensemble
🎫 www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202...
“Sanctuary” by Maria Thompson Corley combines her own arrangements of Spirituals, “I Want Jesus to Walk With Me” and “Motherless Child,” while featuring other thematic material.
May 2, 2025 at 9:38 AM
“Sanctuary” by Maria Thompson Corley combines her own arrangements of Spirituals, “I Want Jesus to Walk With Me” and “Motherless Child,” while featuring other thematic material.
African Women | Saturday, 19 July, 3.00PM @wigmore-hall.org.uk
Jamaica-born pianist, composer, writer and poet Maria Thompson Corley has spent her career promoting women composers of African descent both in concert and on record. She will be joined by soprano Nadine Benjamin.
🎫 £5 under 35s 👇
Jamaica-born pianist, composer, writer and poet Maria Thompson Corley has spent her career promoting women composers of African descent both in concert and on record. She will be joined by soprano Nadine Benjamin.
🎫 £5 under 35s 👇
April 30, 2025 at 12:01 PM
African Women | Saturday, 19 July, 3.00PM @wigmore-hall.org.uk
Jamaica-born pianist, composer, writer and poet Maria Thompson Corley has spent her career promoting women composers of African descent both in concert and on record. She will be joined by soprano Nadine Benjamin.
🎫 £5 under 35s 👇
Jamaica-born pianist, composer, writer and poet Maria Thompson Corley has spent her career promoting women composers of African descent both in concert and on record. She will be joined by soprano Nadine Benjamin.
🎫 £5 under 35s 👇