| Biography | Chinyere Adah Nwanoku OBE (born June 1956, London) is a double bass player and professor of Historical Double Bass Studies at the Royal Academy of Music. She was a founder member and principal bassist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, a position she held for 30 years. Of Nigerian and Irish descent, she is the founder and Artistic Director of the Chineke! Foundation, the first professional orchestra and junior orchestra in Europe to be made up of a majority of Black and minority ethnic (BME) musicians. |