Faculty Accomplishments

Omojola, B. 2023. Panel Chair and organizer: “African Art Music: Autonomy, Pan-Africanism, and Cultural Patriotism.” Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference, Ottawa, Canada, October 19-22, 2023.

Omojola, B. 2023. Conference presentation: “African Pianism, Pan-Africanism and Anticolonial Nationalism: A Study of the Music of Halim El-Dabh.” Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference, Ottawa, Canada, October 19-22, 2023.

Omojola, B. 2023. Conference presentation: “Pitch Organization and Narratology in Post-Colonial African Opera: Composing the Music of Activism in Funmilayo.” The African Operatic Voice Conference, University of Bern, Switzerland, September 8-10, 2023.

Omojola, B. 2023. Public Lecture: “Opera as Political Narrative: Composing the Music of Activism in Funmilayo.” Lagos State University of Education, Lagos, Nigeria, August 4, 2023.

Omojola, B. 2023. Keynote Speaker: “Musical Emblems of the African Postcolony: Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism and Decoloniality.” International Council for Traditional Music and Dance World Conference, University of Ghana, Accra, July 13-19, 2023. https://www.ug.edu.gh/ictm/keynote-speaker

Omojola, B. 2023. “Tributes to Bode Omojola: Paradigms and Encounters in African Musicology.” MUSON Center, Lagos, Nigeria, July 22. Organized by Bode Omojola’s colleagues and former students. https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/07/what-prof-akpabot-taught-me-prof-omojola/

Convened and directed a 3-day exploratory seminar titled “African Art Music: Composers, Performers, and Scholars in Dialogue.” It was hosted by Harvard Radcliffe Institute in June 2021 and featured participants from Africa, Europe, and the United States.

Featured in a BBC Documentary: Classical Commonwealth (Exploring the fusion of classical music with local traditions across the British Commonwealth, February 24, 2021). https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000sht9

Was a webinar guest speaker at Universität Bayreuth, Germany on January 14, 2021. His lecture was titled, Oper bewegt - Towards an African Operatic Voice.

 

Sherezade Panthaki is the featured soprano soloist with the Washington Bach Consort on a World Premiere recording released this month. Entitled "A New Song", this is a brand new multi-movement work for 3 soloists, choir and orchestra by award-winning African-American composer Trevor Weston, and one of three World Premieres that have been specifically written for Ms. Panthaki this season.