Shawn Okpebholo
![]() |
Shawn Okpebholo | |
---|---|
Born | March 28, 1981 | (age 42)
Occupation | Composer, conductor |
Years active | 1995–present |
Website | shawnokpebholo.com |
Shawn E. Okpebholo (born March 28, 1981) is an American composer and conductor.
Career
The music of Okpebholo has been performed in over twenty-five states, as well as Canada, Africa, Europe, and Asia at various distinguished venues and festivals, including the Monte Music Festival in Goa, India; the National Cathedral; MusicX Contemporary Music Festival; state music festivals of Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Texas; PRIZM Ensemble Concert Series; and The University of North Carolina at Greensboro New Music Festival where he was an invited special guest lecturer and composer. Other invited guest lecture appearances and masterclasses include the University of Benin (Nigeria) and Biola University Conservatory of Music, among others.[1][self-published source]
Okpebholo regularly receives commissions from noted soloists, universities, and organizations, including the Fifth House Ensemble, the International Tuba and Euphonium Association, the United States Air Force, the Ohio Music Education Association, to name a few. Some celebrated performing artists and ensembles include Cadillac Moon, Fulcrum Point, Picosa, United States Army Field Band, cellist Leonardo Altino, baritones Will Liverman and Robert Sims, mezzo-soprano J'Nai Bridges, pianists Paul Tuntland Sánchez and Mark Markham, euphonium virtuoso Steven Mead, flutists Caen-Thomason-Redus and Jenny Oh Brown, among others. He has received grants from the Illinois Arts Council, Tangemen Sacred Music Center, Wheaton College (Aldeen Research Grant, John Stott Faculty Grant in Human Needs and Global Resources, Faculty Global Research Grant), and a Union University Pew Research Grant. His compositions can be heard on a variety of commercially released albums, including his first album solely devoted to his music, Steal Away, a collection of re-imagined Negro spirituals.[2][3][self-published source]
As an academic, Okpebholo has been in residence at many colleges and universities in both the U.S. and Nigeria, giving masterclasses, guest lecturing, and having his music featured in concert. He was one of eighteen featured composers in Volume IV of the book series, "Composers on Composing for Band," edited by Mark Camphouse. Further, his composition and research interests have been a gateway for ethnomusicological fieldwork in both East and West Africa
Okpebholo is currently professor of music theory at Wheaton College Conservatory of Music.[4][failed verification][5]
Awards
- American Prize in Composition (orchestral division), "Kutimbua Kivumbi," Second Place, 2016
- Flute New Music Consortium Composition Competition, first prize
- Adams-Owens Composition Award,
- Accent06 International Composition Competition, first place
Discography
- Lord, How Come Me Here?, 2022
- Steal Away, 2015
Notable students
References
- ^ "Bio". Shawn Okpebholo. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
- ^ http://ccm.uc.edu/musicx/Bios/shawnokpebholo.htmlRetrieved June 1, 2011. Archived March 15, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Home". shawnokpebholo.com.
- ^ www.curnowmusicpress.com http://www.curnowmusicpress.com/shawneokpebholo.htm. Retrieved May 27, 2011.
{{cite web}}
: Missing or empty|title=
(help) - ^ "Shawn Okpebholo".
- ^ "Elliot Leung '16, #30under30", Wheaton College
External links
![]() | This article contains uncited categories (Category:University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music alumni and Category:Asbury University alumni). (October 2020) |
- Webarchive template wayback links
- CS1 errors: missing title
- CS1 errors: bare URL
- Articles with short description
- Short description with empty Wikidata description
- BLP articles lacking sources from July 2021
- All BLP articles lacking sources
- Articles without Wikidata item
- Articles with hCards
- All accuracy disputes
- Accuracy disputes from July 2021
- All articles with failed verification
- Articles with failed verification from July 2021
- Official website not in Wikidata
- AC with 0 elements
- Articles with uncited categories from October 2020
- All articles with uncited categories
- 1981 births
- Living people
- Place of birth missing (living people)
- 20th-century classical composers
- 21st-century classical composers
- American music arrangers
- Musicians from Lexington, Kentucky
- Wheaton College (Illinois) faculty
- University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music alumni
- Asbury University alumni
- 21st-century American composers
- Male classical composers
- 20th-century American composers
- 20th-century American male musicians
- 21st-century American male musicians