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Ayo Bankole
4+ albums
nigerianClassical
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Ayo Bankole was born in Jos, Nigeria, into a musical family: his father, Theophilus Abiodun Bankole was an organist and Choirmaster at St. Luke's Anglican Church in Jos. His mother was a music instructor for several years at Queen's School, Ede, Osun State, a Federal government high school. Bankole studied in London at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. There he met drama student and poet Brian Edward Hurst and set one of Hurst's poems, "Children of the Sun", to music; this was performed at the Guildhall School in 1960. He also studied at Clare College, Cambridge and received a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship to study ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Bankole returned to Nigeria in 1966 and was appointed Senior Producer in Music at the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation, Lagos, where he worked until 1969, after which he was appointed lecturer in music at the School of African and Asian Studies, University of Lagos. He worked as a music educator, composer, choral conductor, performer and musicologist with independent choral groups, including the Choir of Angels (students from three high schools in Lagos: Reagan Memorial, Lagos Anglican Girls Grammar School, and the Methodist Girls High School), Lagos University Musical Society, Nigerian National Musico-Cultural Society, and the Chapel of the Healing Cross Choir, all in Lagos. He wrote much Christian liturgical music in the Yoruba language and his compositions show elements of both traditio
top songs
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Egun Variations in G Major
1102Nigerian Suite: V. Warrior March
573Variations for little Ayo
464Ya Orule
265Piano Sonata No. 2 in C-Major 'The Passion': I. And they sought about for to kill Him
236Nigerian Suite: II. Oyaka Kongs
227Nigerian Suite: IV. October Wind
218Piano Sonata No. 2 in C-Major 'The Passion': III. Mary's Song or Mary's Rondo
219Piano Sonata No. 2 in C-Major 'The Passion': II. And He was crucified
2110Nigerian Suite: III. Orin Fun Osumare
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