Composers
Christian Onyeji
1967 -About
Nigerian composer, pianist, choreographer, conductor, and music and theater director Christian Onyeji holds degrees in composition from the University of Nigeria and the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is currently Senior Lecturer and Acting Head of the Department of Music, University of Nigeria.
Having contributed several important articles to ethnomusicology and education journals, Onyeji specializes in "Research-Composition", a modern approach to art music composition that entails application of ethnomusicological procedures in the composition of modern African art music.
He has written for symphony orchestra, piano, and choir. His choral music appears in "World Carols for Choirs" published by Oxford University Press, and his piano works include Oga, Ufie I, II, III