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- Akin Euba is a Nigerian composer, musicologist, and pianist. 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 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 holds a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of Ghana, Legon (1974). While at Legon Euba's doctoral work was supervised by J. H. Kwabena Nketia, and his dissertation is entitled "Dundun Music of the Yoruba. " He was former Professor and Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies at the University of Lagos, and has also served as a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Ife in Nigeria. He served as Head of Music at the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation for five years. Since December 1986 has served as a research scholar and artist in residence at IWALEWA House, the African studies center of the University of Bayreuth in Germany. He currently serves as Andrew Mellon Professor of Music at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the founder and director of the Centre for Intercultural Music Arts, London (founded in 1989), and currently serves on the Board of Management of The Centre for Intercultural Musicology at Churchill College (CIMACC). Euba's scholarly interests include the musicology and ethnomusicology of modern interculturalism. He has organized regular symposia on music in Africa and the Diaspora at Churchill College, Cambridge as well as the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. These events have featured such notable composers and scholars as J. H. Kwabena Nketia and Halim El-Dabh. With his Elekoto Ensemble, he has brought together musicians from Nigeria, China, India, Germany, Malta, and the United States. His compositions involve a synthesis of African traditional material (often from his own ethnic group, the Yoruba people) and contemporary classical music. His most ambitious composition is the opera Chaka: An Opera in Two Chants (1970), which blends West African percussion and atenteben flutes with twelve tone technique.
- Akin Euba ist ein nigerianischer Komponist. Euba studierte von 1952 bis 1957 am Trinity College of Music in London Musik. Danach war er Leiter der Musikabteilung des nigerianischen Rundfunks. 1965 bis 1966 studierte er in Los Angeles Komposition und Musikethnologie. Bis 1968 war er dann Lektor für Musik an der Universität von Lagos, danach Leiter der Forschungsabteilung der Universität Ile-Ife. Er komponierte die Oper Chaka, eine Tanzsuite für fünfzehn nigerianische Instrumente, vier Stücke für afrikanisches Orchester, eine sinfonische Studie für Orchester über eine Yoruba-Sage, ein Stück für Chor und nigerianische Instrumente, ein Bläserquintett, ein Streichquartett und Klavierwerke.
- Olatunji Akin Euba on nigerialainen säveltäjä, musiikintutkija ja pianisti. Hän on etniseltä taustaltaan joruba. Euba opiskeli sävellystä Arnold Cooken johdolla Trinity College of Musicissa, Lontoossa ja Roy Travisin johdolla Kalifornian yliopistossa, Los Angelesissa. Monissa Euban teoksissa on vaikutteita afrikkalaisesta musiikista. Hän on säveltänyt muiden muassa oopperan Chaka.
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- Akin Euba is a Nigerian composer, musicologist, and pianist. 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 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 holds a Ph.D.
- Akin Euba ist ein nigerianischer Komponist. Euba studierte von 1952 bis 1957 am Trinity College of Music in London Musik. Danach war er Leiter der Musikabteilung des nigerianischen Rundfunks. 1965 bis 1966 studierte er in Los Angeles Komposition und Musikethnologie. Bis 1968 war er dann Lektor für Musik an der Universität von Lagos, danach Leiter der Forschungsabteilung der Universität Ile-Ife.
- Olatunji Akin Euba on nigerialainen säveltäjä, musiikintutkija ja pianisti. Hän on etniseltä taustaltaan joruba. Euba opiskeli sävellystä Arnold Cooken johdolla Trinity College of Musicissa, Lontoossa ja Roy Travisin johdolla Kalifornian yliopistossa, Los Angelesissa. Monissa Euban teoksissa on vaikutteita afrikkalaisesta musiikista. Hän on säveltänyt muiden muassa oopperan Chaka.
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