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Organ House Concert and Seminar Series, Km 12, Lagos/Ibadan Expressway, Ibafo (2026)

07/04/2026

We welcome Prince Ope Fadina “Barrywhite” to the series. A singer, choral director, broadcaster, and organist, he will reflect on his experiences and on the influential Nigerian radio programme Sunday Night at the Organ.

This series explores the vast and dynamic landscape of organ music and choral cultures in Nigeria, shaped by diverse artistic, creative, political, doctrinal, and performance traditions. Conversations engage artistic practice, performance styles, interpretive traditions, entrepreneurship, and the lived experiences of organists, choirmasters and choirmistresses, music ministers, choirs, churches, organ vendors, and technicians.

🗓 Thursday, April 9
⏰ 1:00 pm (WAT) | 2:00 pm (SA) | 7:00 am (EST)
📍 The Organ House | Zoom
🔗 https://zoomto.me/e4U12
Meeting ID: 667 970 0313 | Passcode: mtumusic

Open to undergraduates, graduate students, and early and mid-career music scholars and professionals in Nigeria.

📩 [email protected]

09/03/2026

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Segun Fadeyi to the Nigerian Organ Music and Choral Culture Series at the Organ House.

A renowned organist, choral director, music educator, scholar, and music entrepreneur, Dr. Fadeyi will reflect on his extensive experiences while offering contemporary perspectives on organ music and choral cultures in Nigeria.

Like many Nigerian musical traditions, the organ and choral music landscape is vast, dynamic, and shaped by diverse artistic, creative, doctrinal, and performance cultures. Through this series, we explore these worlds—focusing on artistic practice, performance styles, interpretive traditions, entrepreneurship, and the lived experiences of organists, choirmasters/choirmistresses, music ministers, choirs, churches, organ vendors, and technicians.

Join us for what promises to be a stimulating and enriching conversation.

🗓 Thursday, March 12
⏰ 1:00 pm (WAT) | 2:00 pm (SA) | 7:00 am (EST)
📍 The Organ House | Zoom
🔗 https://zoomto.me/e4U12
🆔 Meeting ID: 667 970 0313 | Passcode: mtumusic

🎓 We warmly invite undergraduates, graduate students, and early/mid-career music scholars and professionals in Nigeria to join the conversation.

📩 Enquiries: [email protected]

03/03/2026

This reading session focuses on Chapter 5 of Kofi Agawu’s Representing African Music (2003). We will explore Agawu’s attempt at challenging binaries such as “functional” and “art” music, and exploring his conception of African music as “text”— “something woven by performer-composers who conceive and produce the music-dance, by listener-viewers who consume it, and by critics who constitute it as text for the purposes of analysis and interpretation” (195). This chapter critically frames African music as theory, discourse, and cultural epistemology underpinned by semiotics, philosophy, and intertwined with language, memory, emotion, and social meaning.

Please join us for what promises to be a stimulating and enriching scholarly conversation.

Reading:

Agawu, Kofi. 2003. “African Music as Text.” Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions. New York: Routledge, pages 195-224.

You can access the Reading here: https://tinyurl.com/Chapt5AfricanMusicasText

Date: Thursday, March 5 || Time: 1 pm (WAT), 2 pm (SA) and 7 am (EST) || Venue: The Organ House/Zoom: https://zoomto.me/e4U12

In case of technological challenges, you can also login directly via Zoom using the meeting ID and Passcode. Meeting ID: 667 970 0313|| Passcode: mtumusic

For further details, contact us at [email protected]

We particularly invite undergraduates, graduate students and early/mid-career music scholars and professionals in Nigeria to the Organ House Concert and Seminar Series. The Series serves as a space of scholarly empowerment while also providing relevant resources for advancing music studies, culture, performance, creativity, and scholarship in Nigeria and Africa.

24/02/2026

We are happy to welcome Dr Blessing Amole as he introduces the “Society of African Music Composers”, an emerging body aimed at promoting music composition, scholarship, and creativity in Nigeria and Africa. In this presentation, Dr Amole will discuss the society's vision, objectives, and initiatives, highlighting its potential impact on Nigeria’s creative landscapes, cultural development and music education and research.

Date: Thursday, February 26 || Time: 1 pm (WAT), 2 pm (SA) and 7 am (EST) || Venue: The Organ House/Zoom: https://zoomto.me/e4U12

In case of technological challenges, you can also login directly via Zoom using the meeting ID and Passcode. Meeting ID: 667 970 0313|| Passcode: mtumusic

For further details, contact us at [email protected].

We particularly invite undergraduates, graduate students and early/mid-career music scholars and professionals in Nigeria to the Organ House Concert and Seminar Series. The Series serves as a space of scholarly empowerment while also providing relevant resources for advancing music studies, culture, performance, creativity, and scholarship in Nigeria and Africa

15/02/2026

We were honored to host the incredible at this week’s seminar series. An unforgettable performance that reminded us how powerful music truly is.

If you missed it, you missed something special.
But don’t worry, more unforgettable moments are coming. Stay tuned. 👀

08/02/2026

We are happy to welcome Dr. Rebeca Omordia, renowned Nigerian-British concert pianist and founder/curator of the African Concert Series at Wigmore Hall, London. In recent years, Dr. Omordia has been at the forefront of advancing African art music through her performance practice, research, curation, and community outreach across Europe and Africa. Her work constitutes an innovative approach to African art music and African Pianism, highlighting the critical role of women in sustaining African musical cultures and intellectual traditions. Through her artistic, scholarly, and curatorial interventions, Dr. Omordia not only recentres African women within the discourse of African art music and Pianism, but also creates new pathways of representation, mentorship, and possibility for young women and emerging African pianists, musicians, scholars, and cultural professionals. Her practice situates African art music within a global African/Black creative, cultural, and intellectual continuum, connecting the African continent with its multiple diasporas and reimagining African Pianism as both artistic practice and cultural thought.

In this Organ House session, Dr. Omordia will reflect on her artistic practice and initiatives, exploring how her work is re-entering African art music into contemporary global visibility. She will examine how her concert series and outreach programmes mediate the tensions between global recognition and local accessibility, and how, through artistic excellence, African Pianism is translated into social, cultural, and symbolic value for diverse publics.

Date: Thursday, February 12 || Time: 1 pm (WAT), 2 pm (SA) and 7 am (EST) || Venue: The Organ House/Zoom: https://zoomto.me/e4U12

In case of technological challenges, you can also login directly via Zoom using the meeting ID and Passcode. Meeting ID: 667 970 0313|| Passcode: mtumusic

For further details, contact us at [email protected].

We particularly invite undergraduates, graduate students and early/mid-career music scholars and professionals in Nigeria to the Organ House Concert and Seminar Series. The Series serves as a space of scholarly empowerment while also providing relevant resources for advancing music studies, culture, performance, creativity, and scholarship in Nigeria and Africa.

27/01/2026

We are pleased to welcome Prof. Kofi Agawu for the February edition of the Organ House Reading Session.

Date: Thursday, 5 February 2026
Time: 1:00 pm (WAT) | 2:00 pm (SA) | 7:00 am (EST)

This session will focus on Chapter 4 of Representing African Music (2003) and Agawu’s influential article, “Structural Analysis or Cultural Analysis?” (2006). Together, we will revisit and critically engage questions of rhythm, polymeter, analytical frameworks, and the contested notion of the “standard pattern” in African music.

Please join us for what promises to be a stimulating and enriching scholarly conversation.

Reading:

Agawu, Kofi. 2003.“Polymeter, Additive Rhythm, and Other Enduring Myth.” Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions. New York: Routledge, pages 151-193.
You can access the Reading here: https://tinyurl.com/Chap4Repsnting-African-Music

Agawu, Kofi. 2006. “Structural Analysis or Cultural Analysis? Competing Perspectives on the ‘Standard Pattern’ of West African Rhythm.” In Journal of the American Musicological Society, 59(1):1- 46.
You can access the Reading here: https://tinyurl.com/Agawu2006onStandardPattern

Date: Thursday, February 5 || Time: 1 pm (WAT), 2 pm (SA) and 7 am (EST) || Venue: The Organ House/Zoom: https://zoomto.me/e4U12

In case of technological challenges, you can also login directly via Zoom using the meeting ID and Passcode. Meeting ID: 667 970 0313|| Passcode: mtumusic

For further details, contact us at [email protected]

We particularly invite undergraduates, graduate students and early/mid-career music scholars and professionals in Nigeria to the Organ House Concert and Seminar Series. The Series serves as a space of scholarly empowerment while also providing relevant resources for advancing music studies, culture, performance, creativity, and scholarship in Nigeria and Africa

21/01/2026

In this session, representatives from NGCCD will provide insights into the initiative/organisation's agenda and its relevance to the development and sustainability of music education in Nigeria.

Formal music education across Nigeria’s public primary, secondary, and tertiary institutions has become a concern in recent times. While Nigeria’s popular music and music industry have been successful and garnered global visibility, formal music education remains elusive and docile in Nigeria. Over the last 30 years, music education has steadily declined in public institutions. This is necessitated by several factors, including economic, political, ethnic and class differentiation, funding, and policy issues—which are fundamental to Nigeria as a nation state.

In an attempt to mediate this decline, the “Nigerian Guild of Composers, Choral Directors and Music Teachers (NGCCD)”, a recent initiative of some Nigerian music educators, was established. The aspiration of NGCCD includes “mobilising classroom teachers” to support foundational professional music bodies in facilitating “peaceful advocacy and policy submissions” that promote music teachers, scholars and practitioners. The question is: what is NGCCD? What are its aims and objectives?

Join the NGCCD for this session to gain insight into its agenda and objectives.

Date: Thursday, January 22 || Time: 1 pm (WAT), 2 pm (SA) and 7 am (EST) || Venue: The Organ House/Zoom: https://zoomto.me/e4U12

In case of technological challenges, you can also login directly via Zoom using the meeting ID and Passcode. Meeting ID: 667 970 0313|| Passcode: mtumusic

For further details, contact us at [email protected].

We particularly invite undergraduates, graduate students and early/mid-career music scholars and professionals in Nigeria to the Organ House Concert and Seminar Series. The Series serves as a space of scholarly empowerment while also providing relevant resources for advancing music studies, culture, performance, creativity, and scholarship in Nigeria and Africa.

12/01/2026

Nigeria’s economic and political challenges of the late 1970s had a devastating impact on music education, particularly within state schools. The early 1980s, however, heralded a new era, announcing state-wide community music education and choral music initiatives in Lagos. Mr Ebenezer Ekundayo Omole was one of the three pillars of this new movement in Lagos. By 1980, Mr. Omole and his colleagues had launched the Lagos State School Choral and Community Music Outreach, a twofold initiative aimed at empowering communities through music education and a statewide school choral music program. Within the first decade, more than 500 primary and secondary school music teachers were trained. In 1990, the Lagos Ministry of Education appointed Mr Omole as the Head of its Music and Music Education unit. His community music outreach and intra-school choral festivals and competitions not only changed the musical landscape of Lagos State schools but also institutionalised and laid solid foundations for school music competitions as a “culture” and community outreach, a culture that still resonates in Lagos and beyond. The impact of Mr. Omole’s initiatives and works resonates across generations among musicians, educators, scholars, administrators, church musicians, and clergy—many of whom acknowledge and trace their professional and career formation to the pathways he helped create.

Join us in this session as we reflect on the life, work, and enduring influence of Mr Ebenezer Omole’s music empowerment initiatives while also considering what this legacy means for a new generation of Nigerian and African music teachers, musicians, scholars, administrators, and church musicians.

Date: Thursday, January 15 || Time: 1 pm (WAT), 2 pm (SA) and 7 am (EST) || Venue: The Organ House/Zoom: https://zoomto.me/e4U12

In case of technological challenges, you can also login directly via Zoom using the meeting ID and Passcode. Meeting ID: 667 970 0313|| Passcode: mtumusic

For further details, contact us at [email protected].

We particularly invite undergraduates, graduate students and early/mid-career music scholars and professionals in Nigeria to the Organ House Concert and Seminar Series. The Series serves as a space of scholarly empowerment while also providing relevant resources for advancing music studies, culture, performance, creativity, and scholarship in Nigeria and Africa.

05/01/2026

Date: Thursday, January 8, 2026
Time: 1 pm (WAT), 2 pm (SA) and 7 am (EST)

What might a re-reading of Agawu’s (2003) text and argument mean for engaging with and understanding contemporary discourse around African/Black music archives, knowledge, and access? What are the connections between the discourse around the invention of rhythm in African music and contemporary discourse around representation and decolonisation? In this session, we will focus on Chapters 2 and 3 of Agawu’s (2003) Representing African Music, exploring issues of access to African music knowledge and the invention and representation of African rhythm as complex.

Reading:

Agawu, Kofi. 2003.“The Archive.” Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions. New York: Routledge, pages 72-123.

You can access the Reading here: https://tinyurl.com/Chapter2onArchive

Agawu, Kofi. 2003. “The Invention of ‘African Rhythm’.” Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions. New York: RoutRoutledgeges 125-149.

You can access the Reading here: https://tinyurl.com/Chapter3onAfricanRhythm

Kofi Agawu’s (2003) Representing African Music stands as a postcolonial manifesto, one that calls for a scholarly revival, redefines critical positions, and envisions intellectual and artistic freedom within African music studies. We aim to critically reflect on the impact and relevance of Agawu’s book over the past two decades and what the book’s claims mean for music scholarship in contemporary Africa and the current global music/musicological discourse. We ask: what do Agawu’s (2003) claims mean today, and how do they resonate or clash with current scholarly and artistic practices? What has the book made possible? What conversations has it opened or complicated? And what might a return to this text mean for emerging scholars and practitioners of African music on the continent and across the Black diaspora? In exploring these questions, we will engage Agawu’s arguments, critiques, and positions, situating them within contemporary discourses in ethnomusicology, musicology, composition, sound studies, music theory, African studies, and African diasporic musical cultures.

Date: Thursday, January 8 || Time: 1 pm (WAT), 2 pm (SA) and 7 am (EST) || Venue: The Organ House/Zoom: https://zoomto.me/e4U12

In case of technological challenges, you can also login directly via Zoom using the meeting ID and Passcode. Meeting ID: 667 970 0313|| Passcode: mtumusic

For further details, contact us at [email protected]

We particularly invite undergraduates, graduate students and early/mid-career music scholars and professionals in Nigeria to the Organ House Concert and Seminar Series. The Series serves as a space of scholarly empowerment while also providing relevant resources for advancing music studies, culture, performance, creativity, and scholarship in Nigeria and Africa.

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