Akin Euba

Akin Euba

Akin Euba (born Olatunji Akin Euba, Lagos, Nigeria, April 28, 1935) is a Nigerian composer, musicologist, and pianist.

Euba studied composition with Arnold Cooke at the Trinity College of Music, London, obtaining the diplomas of Fellow of the Trinity College London (Composition) and Fellow of the Trinity College London (Piano). He received B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied with Mantle Hood, Charles Seeger, J. H. Kwabena Nketia, Klaus Wachsmann, and Roy Travis. He holds a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of Ghana, Legon (1974). While at Legon Euba's doctoral work was supervised by J. H. Kwabena Nketia, and his dissertation is entitled "Dundun Music of the Yoruba."

He was former Professor and Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies at the University of Lagos, and has also served as a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) in Nigeria. He served as Head of Music at the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation for five years. Since December 1986 has served as a research scholar and artist in residence at IWALEWA House, the African studies center of the University of Bayreuth in Germany. He currently serves as Andrew Mellon Professor of Music at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the founder and director of the Centre for Intercultural Music Arts, London (founded in 1989), and currently serves on the Board of Management of The Centre for Intercultural Musicology at Churchill College (CIMACC).

Euba's scholarly interests include the musicology and ethnomusicology of modern interculturalism. He has organized regular symposia on music in Africa and the Diaspora at Churchill College, Cambridge as well as the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. These events have featured such notable composers and scholars as J. H. Kwabena Nketia and Halim El-Dabh. With his Elekoto Ensemble, he has brought together musicians from Nigeria, China, India, Germany, Malta, and the United States.

His compositions involve a synthesis of African traditional material (often from his own ethnic group, the Yoruba people) and contemporary classical music. His most ambitious composition is the opera Chaka: An Opera in Two Chants (1970), which blends West African percussion and atenteben flutes with twelve tone technique.

Contents

Works

  • Six Yoruba Folk Songs, arranged for voice and piano
  • 1956 - Introduction and Allegro, orchestra
  • 1964 - Four Pictures from Oyo Calabashes
  • 1964 - Impressions From an Akwete Cloth, piano
  • 1967 - Morning, Noon, and Night, singers, dancers, and Nigerian instruments
  • 1967 - Olurounbi (or Olurombi), symphonic study for orchestra
  • 1970 (rev. 1999) - Chaka, opera
  • 1970 - Ice Cubes, string orchestra
  • 1970 - Scenes From Traditional Life, piano
  • 1975 - Alatangana, ballet for singers, dancers, and Nigerian instruments
  • 1979 - Black Bethlehem, soloists, chorus, Nigerian drums, and jazz ensemble
  • 1987 - Wakar Duru: Studies in African Pianism 1-3, piano
  • 2003 - Below Rusumo Falls, voice, dancer, kayagum, flute, drums, and piano (text: Olusola Oyeleye)

Discography

Writings

  • Euba, Akin (1970). "Music Adapts to a Changed World: A Leading Composer Looks at How Africa's Musical Traditions Have Expanded to Suit Contemporary Society." Africa Report, November 1970, pp. 24-27.
  • Euba, Akin (1989). "Yoruba Music in the Church: The Development of a Neo-African Art Among the Yoruba of Nigeria." In African Musicology: Current Trends: A Festschrift Presented to J. H. Kwabena Nketia, ed. J. C. DjeDje and W. G. Carter (Atlanta, Georgia), pp. 45–63.

References

  • Uzoigwe, Joshua (1992). Akin Euba: An Introduction to the Life and Music of a Nigerian Composer. Bayreuth, Germany: Bayreuth African Studies Series.

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