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Meet Chi-chi Nwanoku
Listen to Chi-chi Nwanoku’s Interview with Caitriona Bolster, KWAX Radio, Portland, OR
An ex-sprinter and half the size of her double bass, Chi-chi Nwanoku has gained a reputation as one of the finest exponents of her instrument today.
The eldest of five children from Nigerian and Irish parents, Chi-chi was seven when she discovered the piano at a neighbour’s. She returned to their house daily to play until the neighbours got so fed up they wheeled the piano up the road and gave it to her! Meanwhile, she was spotted by an athletics coach and trained as a 100-metre sprinter, eventually competing at National level. This career ended abruptly due to a knee injury aged 18, which is when (and why) she took up the double bass and actively pursued a career in music. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music and with Franco Petracchi in Rome, and soon found herself in demand internationally.
Chi-chi is the Founder, Artistic and Executive Director of the Chinek
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Matilda Lloyd, 17, started playing the trumpet at the age of 8. In 2010 she won the Normans Trumpet Scholarship to Junior Guildhall where she is studying with Andy Mitchell, and this year she won the Junior Guildhall Trumpet Scholarship. Matilda is the principal trumpet of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, and also principal cornet of the Junior Guildhall Brass Band and principal trumpet at the Sevenoaks Symphony Orchestra. Matilda played solo flugelhorn on one of the 8 music barges in the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Pageant. Matilda has also just won the Guildford Symphony Orchestra Young Artists’ prize and has been invited to play concertos in Guildford, Tonbridge, Canterbury and at St. Martin in the Fields in London. She will also be joining the London Philharmonic Orchestra in one of their lunchtime concerts in February.
Two years ago she joined the National Youth Wind Ensemble on their two-week tour to the Far East as one of the youngest members
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Ye-Eun Choi, presented with profound inspiration through Bach Double Concerto with Anne Sophie Mutter in 2007, made her outstanding debut with Orchestre National dem France beneath Riccardo Muti at Maison de la Radio in Paris.
As one of the world’s most in-demand soloists, Ye-Eun Choi continues to develop and reach new audiences every season.
She regularly works together with the world’s leading conductors including: Riccardo Muti, Mariss Jansons, Charles Dutoit,Christoph Eschenbach, Andre Previn,Jirí Belohlávek , Michael Tilson Thomas, Jap Van Zweden, Yannick Nezet Seguin, Manfred Honeck, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Yuri Bashmet, Neeme Jarvi, Alan Gilbert, Kent Nagano, Andrew Manze, Stephane Deneve, Nicholas McGegan, Sergey Neller, Hugh Wolf, Christian Vasquez, etc.
Ye-Eun Choi collaborated with orchestras such as:New York Phillharmonic Orchestra, San Francisco S