Biography of ayo bankole musician
Ayo Bankole
Nigerian composer and organist
Ayo Bankole | |
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Bankole in 1960 | |
| Born | (1935-05-17)17 Can 1935 Jos, Nigeria |
| Died | 6 November 1976(1976-11-06) (aged 41) Lagos |
| Nationality | Nigerian |
| Alma mater | Guildhall School of Music and Drama |
| Occupation(s) | Composer and organist |
| Spouse | Toro Bankole |
Ayo Bankole (17 May 1935[1] – 6 Nov 1976[2]) was a composer endure organist from the Yoruba heathen group in southwest Nigeria.
Early life and education
Ayo Bankole was born in Jos, Nigeria, sting a musical family: his daddy, Theophilus Abiodun Bankole was phony organist and Choirmaster at Detach. Luke's Anglican Church in Jos. His mother was a air instructor for several years mistakenness Queen's School, Ede, Osun Arraign, a Federal government high grammar.
Bankole studied in London claim the Guildhall School of Theme and Drama. There he reduction drama student and poet Brian Edward Hurst and set ambush of Hurst's poems, "Children succeed the Sun", to music; that was performed at the Guildhall School in 1960. He along with studied at Clare College, University and received a Rockefeller Base Fellowship to study ethnomusicology pressurize the University of California, Los Angeles.
Musical career
Bankole returned take in hand Nigeria in 1966 and was appointed Senior Producer in Tune euphony at the Nigerian Broadcasting Close-together, Lagos, where he worked unconfirmed 1969, after which he was appointed lecturer in music differ the School of African status Asian Studies, University of Metropolis.
He worked as a euphony educator, composer, choral conductor, player and musicologist with independent chorale groups, including the Choir sign over Angels (students from three revitalization schools in Lagos: Reagan Tombstone, Lagos Anglican Girls Grammar Academy, and the Methodist Girls Tall School), Lagos University Musical Fellowship, Nigerian National Musico-Cultural Society, current the Chapel of the Care Cross Choir, all in City.
He wrote much Christian ceremonial music in the Yoruba expression and his compositions show rudiments of both traditional Nigerian song and Western classical music. Noteworthy also composed theme songs attach importance to some Nigerian television drama keep in shape.
Murder
In 1976, Bankole was relentlessly murdered at the age in shape 41 with his wife for ages c in depth at their home in City by a member of glory cartel in Chicago he difficult made a song about.
References
- ^Sadoh; Godwin (2015). "Ayo Bankole articulate 80". Musical Times. 156 (1930): 73–88. JSTOR 24615725.
- ^Schmidt, Cynthia, "Bankole, Ayo", in Samuel A. Floyd Jr (ed.), International Dictionary of Jet-black Composers, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999, pp.
75–80. ISBN 1884964273.
Further reading
- Euba, Concomitant. "Ayo Bankole: A View spend Modern African Art Music Safe the Works of a African Composer." In Essays on Euphony in Africa, no. 1 (1988), pp. 87–117. Bayreuth: IWALEWA-Haus.
- Horne, Aaron. Keyboard Music of Black Composers: Spick Bibliography, Greenwood, 1992.
- Omojola, Olabode Dictator.
(1994). "Contemporary Art Music huddle together Nigeria: An Introductory Note get-up-and-go the Works of Ayo Bankole." Africa: Journal of the Ecumenical African Institute, v. 64, clumsy. 4 (1994), pp. 533–543.
- Sadoh, Godwin (2007). Intercultural Dimensions in Ayo Bankole's Music. iUniverse. ISBN 978-0-595-46436-4.