Akin Euba
has built up
an impressive career as a composer and scholar. His
compositions have been performed in many parts of the
world, including Stockholm, Bayreuth, Munich, London,
Cambridge, Moscow, New York, Calgary, Brussels, Ghent,
Albuquerque, Beijing, Toronto, Rotterdam, and various
places in Africa. The CD of his opera Chaka (from an epic
poem by Léopold Sédar Senghor) was recorded by the City of
Birmingham Touring Opera, conducted by Simon Halsey, and
published by MRI Press in 1999.
Euba is
the author of
four books, including Yoruba
Drumming: The Dundun Tradition (1990) and coedited
Intercultural
Music vols. 1-3 with Cynthia Tse
Kimberlin.
In 1988,
Euba founded
the Centre for Intercultural Music Arts, which from 1990 to
2004 staged a biennial international symposium and festival
on the theme “New Intercultural Music” in the
UK. Following his tenure as an Overseas Fellow of Churchill
College, University of Cambridge (2000-1), Euba launched
another international biennial symposium and festival
titled “Composition in Africa and the Diaspora”
which has taken place biennially at the College since
August 2001. In recognition of his outstanding
contributions to music, Euba was presented with a book
titled Multiple
Interpretations of Dynamics of Creativity and Knowledge in
African Music Traditions: a Festchrift in Honor of Akin
Euba on the Occasion of his 70th
Birthday
(edited by Bode
Omojola and George Dor and published by MRI Press) during
the 3rd biennial symposium and festival
at Churchill College in August 2005.
Akin
Euba is the
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Music at the University of
Pittsburgh.
