Echezonachukwu Nduka

Echezonachukwu Nduka is a pianist, poet, and author. As a recording artist and performer, he focuses primarily on art music for piano by composers of African descent. He is interested African pianism, African art music, performance studies, and the nexus between music and postcolonial anglophone literatures, particularly poetry and nonfiction. His research will focus on the sociocultural significations, spatial locations, programming, and performance practices of African pianism.

In 2010, Nduka graduated with a BA (Hons) in Music from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He received a Master of Arts degree in Music from Kingston University London (UK) in 2015. Since then, he has recorded three EPs and an album, published articles in peer-reviewed journals and creative writing in literary anthologies, presented at conferences, given public lectures and lecture-recitals, and spoken at Universities including Stockton and Harvard as an invited scholar-performer.

He has been featured in performances as a pianist and poet with support from organizations including the Intercultural Music Initiative (IMI), Somers Point Arts Commission, The African Concert Series London, Casual Concert Series (Buffalo, NY),  Ocean City Free Public Library, among others.
A Booth-Ferris Graduate Fellow 2023–2024, his recent album ‘The African Serenades’ has been described by Afrocritik as “intense, emotive listening experience.” He is a Benjamin Franklin Fellow and PhD Student in Music Studies (Ethnomusicology).