2018.02.11 奇奇-恩瓦诺库 低音提琴演奏家

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Chi-chi Nwanoku is a double bass player and founder of Europe's first professional majority black and minority ethnic orchestra, Chineke!.

Chi-chi is the eldest of five children, born to a Nigerian father and an Irish mother. Early on, she discovered two competing passions: playing the piano and 100 metre sprinting. She was aiming to qualify for the 1976 Olympics when she suffered a knee injury which cut short her life as an athlete. Her music teacher then suggested that she could have a career as a musician if she took up 'an unpopular orchestral instrument'. She began learning the double bass a week later.

She was a student at the Royal Academy of Music and for over 30 years has played with renowned orchestras, including the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, English Baroque Soloists, London Classical Players and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment , which she co-founded and where she was principal double bass for three decades.

In 2015, she set up Chineke! to support, inspire and encourage black and minority ethnic musicians. Last year the Chineke! orchestra made its debut at the BBC Proms, and Chi-chi was awarded an OBE for her services to music.



奇奇-恩瓦诺库是一名低音提琴演奏家，也是欧洲第一个以黑人和少数民族为主的专业乐团--奇尼科乐团的创始人。

奇奇是五个孩子中的老大，父亲是尼日利亚人，母亲是爱尔兰人。早期，她发现了两个相互竞争的爱好：弹钢琴和100米短跑。她的目标是获得1976年奥运会的参赛资格，当时她的膝盖受伤，缩短了她作为运动员的生命。她的音乐老师建议，如果她学习 "一种不受欢迎的管弦乐器"，她可以从事音乐家的工作。一周后，她开始学习低音提琴。

她是皇家音乐学院的学生，30多年来一直与著名的乐团合作，包括圣马丁田园学院、英国巴洛克独奏家、伦敦古典演奏家和启蒙时代乐团，她是启蒙时代乐团的共同创始人，在那里她担任了三十年的首席低音提琴。

2015年，她成立了Chineke！以支持、激励和鼓励黑人和少数民族音乐家。去年，Chineke！乐团在BBC Proms上首次亮相，戚薇因其对音乐的贡献被授予OBE。