William Chapman Nyaho

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William H. Chapman Nyaho (surname Chapman Nyaho; b. Washington, D.C., 1958) is a Ghanaian American concert pianist specializing in solo piano music by composers from Africa and the African diaspora.

He left with his family to their native Ghana when he was just ten months of age, eventually graduating from the Achimota School in Legon, where he studied piano with John Barham. He holds a B.A. degree in music from St Peter's College, Oxford University, an M.M. from the Eastman School of Music, and a D.M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin. He has also studied at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève. He has taught at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

His repertoire includes music by Gamal Abdel-Rahim, Margaret Bonds, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Robert Nathaniel Dett, Halim El-Dabh, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Gyimah Labi, and Joshua Uzoigwe. He has performed throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe, as well as in China.

In 2007, the first two volumes of his five-volume anthology Piano Music of Africa and the African Diaspora were released by Oxford University Press.[1]

He lives in Seattle, Washington.