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This week, I heard the sad news that the respected Nigerian composer, ethnomusicologist and pianist Professor Akin Euba passed away on April 14th. The work of Professor Euba has featured in many aspects of this project, particularly through collaborations with Decus Ensemble where I have been able to programme both his 5 Pieces for English Horn and Piano and his String Quartet.

Among the many tributes shared in the days since his passing, was one by Professor Godwin Sadoh who has been a great supporter of the plainsightSOUND project. I am sharing it below with his permission.

Akin Euba: Foremost Nigerian Musicologist and Composer Dies at 84

Akin Euba was born on April 28, 1935, in Lagos, Nigeria. He had his early musical training in Lagos before proceeding to England for advanced studies. In four years at the Trinity College of Music, Euba earned three diplomas:
Associate of the Trinity College, London (Piano Performance) 1954; Licentiate of the Trinity College London (Teacher’s Training Diploma) 1955; and Licentiate of the Trinity College London (Piano Per

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Akin Euba

Nigerian musician (1935–2020)

Olatunji Akin Euba (28 April 1935 – 14 April 2020), was a Nigerian composer, musicologist, and pianist.

Career

Born on 28 April 1935 in Lagos, Nigeria, Akin Euba studied composition with Arnold Cooke at the Trinity College of Music, London, obtaining the diplomas of fellow of the Trinity College London (Composition) and fellow of the Trinity College London (Piano). He was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in 1962. He received B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied with Mantle Hood, Charles Seeger, J. H. Kwabena Nketia, Klaus Wachsmann, and Roy Travis. He held a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of Ghana, Legon (1974). While at Legon, Euba's doctoral work was supervised by Professor Nketia, and his dissertation is titled "Dundun Music of the Yoruba".

Euba was professor and director of the Centre for Cultural Studies at the University of Lagos, and also served as a senior research fellow at the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) in Nigeria.

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Fields

African music; Composition; Piano Performance.

He is also the pioneer of various theories, including those of African pianism and creative ethnomusicology.

Teaching

Music in Africa; Introduction to Ethnomusicology; Field and Lab Methods; World Music; Creative Ethnomusicology; Intercultural Musicology

Selected Honors/Awards

Biography in New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2d ed., 2001

Biography in International Dictionary of Black Composers, 1999

Selected Publications

"African Drums in Symphony Hall: Village Signals in Intercontinental Encounters." In New Pastoral . Edited by John Kinsella and Susan Stewart, Tri Quarterly 116. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2003.

"Gods and Deputy Gods: Music in Yoruba Religious and Kingship Traditions." In The Interrelatedness of Music, Religion and Ritual in African Performance Practice . Edited by Daniel K. Avorgbedor. Ceredigion, Wales: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2003.

"Intercultural Music in Africa and Latin America: A Comparative View of Fela Sowande and Carlos Chavez." In Musical Cultures of L