
The African Concert Series
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The world's first ever African Concert Series. A celebration of African Art Composers and African Classical Music. Resident series at Wigmore Hall.
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Tunde Jegede @ African Classical Ensemble sound checking ahead of this evening’s concert at Wigmore Hall performing traditional music from Gambia!


Spectacular climax to The African Concert Series Wigmore Hall with Tunde Jegede & the African Classical Music Ensemble: spellbinding solo kora work by Jegede himself, with thrilling traditional & contemporary rep for the band. Brilliant, brilliant day.


The 7th African Concert Series began yesterday at Wigmore Hall feat. piano music from Ethiopia with Girma Yifrashewa, traditional music from Gambia with Tunde Jegede & The African Classical Ensemble and Violin Music of the African Diaspora with Aisha Syed Castro & Rebeca Omordia


« Soirée au Hoggar » from Miniatures Algériennes by Salim Dada, inspired by “Tindi”, a traditional rhythm played by Tuareg women on a camel-skin drum stretched over a hollowed-out gourd. #algerian #africanpianism SOMM RECORDINGS

🖼️🤔👓 My latest piece for ArtMuseLondon covers the most recent The African Concert Series Day - and looks forward to the next! Wigmore Hall Rebeca Omordia artmuselondon.com/2025/03/24/new…

New tradition: an African Concert Series update Adrian Ainsworth on the recent The African Concert Series Wigmore Hall Link below 👇🏼


Thank you Adrian Ainsworth for this piece on the African Concert Series at Wigmore Hall and for reviewing our 15 March concerts! 👓 Read More at the link below artmuselondon.com/2025/03/24/new…

🎶 19 July 2025: The African Concert Series at Wigmore Hall 🎫 FREE for 8-25s! wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/20250…


African Women | Saturday, 19 July, 3.00PM Wigmore Hall Jamaica-born pianist, composer, writer and poet Maria Thompson Corley has spent her career promoting women composers of African descent both in concert and on record. She will be joined by soprano Nadine Benjamin.



🎶 Sat, 19 July, 3pm Wigmore Hall Maria Thompson Corley performs her own music as well as piano works and songs by female composers of African descent, she will be joined by soprano Nadine Benjamin. 🎫 £5 under 35s wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/20250…


🎶 Acclaimed Nigerian artist Gerald Eze, known as Ogbu-Ọjà, master performer of the Ọjà performs at the series on 🗓️ Saturday, 19 July, 7.30pm at Wigmore Hall alongside RichardOlatundeBaker Rebeca Omordia & Ubuntu Ensemble 🎫 wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/20250…