 |
|
|
|
 |
 |
|
| <Back
to to Faculty page
MEET THE FACULTY & GUEST ARTISTS
 |
Amadi
Azikiwe • Viola
Amadi Azikiwe, violist and conductor, has been heard
as a recitalist and soloist in the United States and
abroad. In the United States, he has given recitals
in New York, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, San Francisco,
Pittsburgh, Houston, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C.,
including a solo performance at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Mr. Azikiwe has also been a guest of the Chamber Music
Society of Lincoln Center at the Alice Tully Hall in
New York, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.
Internationally, he has performed throughout Israel,
Canada, South America, Central America, India, Japan,
Hong Kong, and throughout the Caribbean. |
He has also toured with Music from Marlboro,
the Maui Classical Music Festival in Hawaii, the El Paso
International Chamber Music Festival, the Salt Bay Chamber
Festival in Maine, as well as the Bravo! Vail Valley Music
Festival in Colorado. Mr. Azikiwe’s performances have
been broadcast on National Public Radio’s “Performance
Today”, “St. Paul Sunday”, on WNYC in
New York, WGBH in Boston, WFMT in Chicago, and the BBC.
|
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
Mr. Azikiwe is on the faculty of James
Madison University in Virginia, and was a visiting faculty
member of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.
He has given masterclasses at the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro, the North Carolina School of
the Arts, Hong Kong Academy of the Performing Arts,
West Texas State University, and for the Boston Symphony's
Project STEP.
In addition to his teaching and performing activities,
Mr. Azikiwe is the Music Director of the Harlem Symphony
Orchestra.
A native of New York City, Amadi Azikiwe was born in
1969. After early studies with his mother, he began
his formal training at the North Carolina School of
the Arts as a student of Sally Peck. He continued his
studies at the New England Conservatory with Marcus
Thompson, receiving his Bachelor’s degree. Mr.
Azikiwe was also awarded the Performer's Certificate
from Indiana University, where he served as an Associate
Instructor, and received his Master's Degree in 1994
as a student of Atar Arad.
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
 |
 |
|
|
|
|
