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Tunde Jegede

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  • Genre: Acoustic / Afro-beat / Classical

    Location London, United Kingdom

    Profile Views: 44133

    Last Login: 4/2/2013

    Member Since 6/18/2006

    Website www.tundejegede.com

    Record Label Xiom Music

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    Tunde Jegede is a composer and musician who has been steeped in the traditions of European and African Classical music for the last 30 years. His music has been performed all over the world in concert halls such as, Carnegie Hall (New York), the Royal Albert Hall (London) and the Basilque (Paris) by international orchestras and artists including; The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The Philharmonia, London Sinfonietta, Brodsky Quartet, Smith Quartet and the percussion soloist, Evelyn Glennie. He is also a pioneer of African Classical Music and has a deep knowledge of traditional music and culture. As the the founder of the African Classical Music Ensemble, Tunde has gone on to perform and record with some of Africa's finest artists including Toumani Diabaté, Oumou Sangaré, Juldeh Camara and the Pan African Orchestra. From an early age, Tunde was uniquely schooled in both Western and African Classical Music. He attended the Purcell School of Music, UK's first specialist music school conservatoire and also studied the music of the Kora (African Harp-Lute) and the Griot tradition under the Gambian Master of the Kora, Amadu Bansang Jobarteh, in a hereditary tradition that dates back over 700 years. From this unusual parallel education, Tunde gained a deep understanding and appreciation of both forms of music and their distinct legacies, and all these strands and influences have since informed his music and work as an international classical composer. His music has since taken him all over the world and he has written three full-scale operas, twenty symphonic works and worked with over a hundred orchestras and chamber groups. Tunde has recorded four solo albums including his seminal debut album, 'Lamentation' and 'Still Moment' a meditative album of solo Kora. His brand new albums, 'Heritage' and 'Solo Cello' will be launched in 2013.

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Tunde Jegede is a multi-instrumentalist who has worked across several genre's, including Classical, Hip Hop, West African music and New Age. He plays the Kora (the west african21 string Harp lute), piano, cello, bass and is an accomplished percussionist. Tunde has been commissioned by, and composed Classical works for, several international orchestras including: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Viva Sinfonia, The National Orchestra of Belgium, The Prince Klaus Foundation of The Netherlands, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and many more.

He has written and composed three Opera's and produced 3 Hip Hop albums for notorious Spoken Word Artist: HKB FiNN. Tunde has released two solo albums: Lamentation & Still Moment. He is currently working on his third solo album entitled: 'Nomad' due in October 2009.

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June 18, 2006

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