Nkeiru Okoye, Composer

“Composer Nkeiru Okoye doesn’t fit neatly into any kind of classical category. Her compositions showcase her genius by incorporating different types of musical styles that help create a sound that’s uniquely hers.”

Andrea Blain and Scott Blankenship, Your Classical Music, Minnesota Public Radio

Meet the composer

Composer, Nkeiru Okoye won The American Prize for her song cycle, We Met at the Symphony. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and Carnegie Hall uses music from her piano suite, African Sketches for its CG logo campaign. Dr. Okoye has been hailed as “gripping” and “evocative” by the New York Times. Her music has been commissioned, performed and presented by Detroit Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, the Julliard School, Louisville Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, Opera North UK, Houston Grand Opera, the American Opera Project, Moscow Symphony, Tanglewood Music Festival, Virginia Symphony, Tulsa Opera, Royal Opera House, UK, and many others. Born out of her year long residency with the Grammy Award winning Louisville Orchestra, Okoye’s recital series "Cocktails, Cookies and the Composer™," brings African American music, and short English language opera to communities. She is a mentor composer for the National Association of Teachers of Singing Art Song Initiative and the American Opera Project, Composers and the Voice program. A librettist and educator, Dr. Okoye’s music is published exclusively through Theodore Presser.

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