Fred Onovwerosuoke

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Fred Onovwerosuoke (“FredO”) is a conductor, lecturer and presenter of African choral music. He founded the African Chorus project, and is serving his tenth season as artistic director of the St. Louis African Chorus.

One of the world's most consulted authority on African choral music, Fred Onovwerosuoke is listed in Cummings, Sleeman, and Neale (eds) International Who's Who in Classical Music (London: Europa Publications Limited, 2002) and is chronicled in the Who's Who in America (Marquis Publications, 2005) He maintains an active schedule as conductor, lecturer, and presenter of African choral music; recently he was presenter and lecturer at the 6th World Choral Symposium in Minneapolis, the Toronto International Choral Festival, Toronto, and the Coro Municipal Juiz de Fora in Brazil.

Some of his writings include Contemplating African Choral Music: Insights for Non-Indigenes and Foreign Conductors (ACDA Choral Journal, May 2002); Faqs and Myths about African Music (VOAM Vol. 5.3). He is editor of the Voice of African Music (a quarterly newsletter on African music), a trustee of the International Consortium for Music of African & its Diaspora (ICMAD), and was adjunct professor of African & African-American Music at Webster University, St. Louis.

Born in Ghana to Nigerian parents, FredO is fluent in French and several African languages, and travels extensively in Africa and around the world.