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Composer of the Month February 2025: Shawn Okpebholo

Shawn OkpebholoNigerian-American composer Shawn E. Okpebholo's music resonates globally, earning widespread acclaim from critics and audiences alike. His GRAMMY®-nominated solo album, 'Lord, How Come Me Here?', reimagines Negro spirituals and American folk hymns. Accolades include awards from the Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Prize in Composition, the Music Publishers Association, ASCAP, and the Leslie Adams-Robert Owens Composition Award. Notable commissions include those from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, United States Air Force Strings, Copland House Ensemble, Tanglewood, Aspen, and Newport Classical Music Festivals, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Imani Winds, Sparks and Wiry Cries, Urban Arias, and the Kennedy Center. His art songs have been performed in concert by the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Los Angeles Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Portland Opera, and Des Moines Metro Opera. Okpebholo has also collaborated with renowned solo artists, including vocalists J'Nai Bridges, Lawrence Brownlee, Rhiannon Giddens, Will Liverman, Michael Mayes, Ryan McKinny, Tamara Wilson, Karen Slack, Paul Sánchez, Reginald Mobley, Julian Velasco, and more. Currently, he serves as the Jonathan Blanchard Distinguished Professor of Composition at Wheaton College Conservatory of Music and the Saykaly Garbulinska Composer-in-Residence with the Lexington Philharmonic. Shawn E. Okpebholo is based in Wheaton, IL, a suburb of Chicago, with his wife, violist Dorthy, and their daughters, Eva and Corinne.

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