ECHEZONACHUKWU NDUKA
PIANIST | POET | SCHOLAR
Press:
Interviews & Conversations
Arise News: Nigerian Musician Echezonachukwu Nduka is Finding International Fame as a Classical Pianist.
BBC World Service : An African Take on Classical Music.
The Cable: Echezonachukwu Nduka reflects on burden of representation as pianist.
Isele Magazine: An Artist in Two Worlds.
Isele Magazine: Echezonachukwu Nduka on Classical Music, Poetry, and African Pianism.
Isele Magazine: Five Questions.
The Sentinel Literary Quarterly Monday Writer: In Conversation with Nnorom Azuonye.
20.35 Africa - Negotiating Boundaries: Translating Pain, Language and History. (In Conversation with Alexis Teyie)
Gainsayer: I knew I wanted to play the piano; in Conversation with David Ishaya Osu.
African Composers: Exclusive interview with African Composers.
Classical Journey, Ep. 134: Let the Maestro; in Conversation with Nkanu Egbe.
Africa in Dialogue: On Rituals, Transcendence, and the Otherworldly; a Dialogue with Gaamangwe Joy Mogami.
Guardian Life Magazine (The Guardian): Between Poems & Pianos; in Conversation with Melissa Mordi.
Lagos Metropolitan: The rhythm of the words in the piano world of Echezonachukwu Nduka
Live Interview Online with African Composers: A Conversation with Dr. Edewede Oriwoh.
Diaspora Central Spotlight: In Conversation with Gil Ingles.
Features & Reviews
Radio Nacional Clásica de Argentina
PROFILE
Folio Nigeria - A Nigerian Pianist, Poet and Writer Fuses Words and Sound To Great Effect.
Afrocritik - Echezonachukwu Nduka and the Music of Poetry.
The Question Marker - Echezonachukwu Nduka: The Poet That Wrote for Ghosts.
LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS
Public Lecture - Perspectives on African Pianism: The Piano Music of Nigerian & Ghanaian Composers
"Scholar for a Day" - Subjective Religiosonic Rendering: Afrobeats and the World of Schemas, Imagery, and Significations
Resounding African Pianism II - African Pianism in Three Perspectives
African Pianism Seminar - New England Conservatory
Penn CFAS International Conference - Musicking through the Timeline: Songs as Resistance and Survival in Postcolonial Nigeria, 1970-2025
African Art Music Symposium - Staging Omojola and Ndodana-Breen: Beyond Mise-en-Scéne to Portrayals of Historical Figures
Penn Grad Talks (2026) - African Pianism in the United States: Who is Listening?