Echezonachukwu Nduka
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Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: Echezonachukwu Nduka
- City: London
- Country: United Kingdom
- Hometown: Onitsha, Nigeria
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"Echezonachukwu Nduka mixes western classical music with African influences to produce a unique audio fusion."
- BBC World Service, Newsday.
My Life & Work
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Bio:
Echezonachukwu Nduka, poet and pianist, is the author of two poetry collections Chrysanthemums for Wide-eyed Ghosts (Griots Lounge, 2018), and Waterman (Griots Lounge, 2020). He holds degrees in Music from both the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and Kingston University London, UK. In 2016, he was awarded the Korea-Nigeria Poetry Prize on World Poetry Day. Hailed by Guardian Life Magazine as Artist Extraordinaire, Nduka’s literary works have been published in The Indianapolis Review, Transition, Bombay Review, Kissing Dynamite, Maple Tree Literary Supplement, 20.35 Africa: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry Vol. II, and A Thousand Voices Rising: An Anthology of Contemporary African Poetry, among others.
A specialist in piano music by African composers, Nduka has performed at the National Opera Centre in New York, Gateway Playhouse (New Jersey), IMI Concert (St. Louis, Missouri), as well as numerous other venues. His work has been featured on BBC Newsday, Radio France International, Classical Journey Ep. 134, and Radio Nacional Clasica de Argentina.
from www.worldartsagency.co.za/echezonachukwu-nduka
Contact Information
- Email: eche_nduka@hotmail.com
- Telephone: +1 973-517-9392
My Media & Markets
- ▶ Book Purchases: http://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9781777275617/echezonachukwu-nduka/waterman
- ▶ Twitter: echenduka
- ▶ Instagram: thepoetpianist
- ▶ Website: http://www.artnduka.com
- ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU6HaE2Uv9HDpCE5v52Ijag
- ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UCyJm-0_EiYqE-_Nmy5qWUCw
- ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/1wZ3dArsSsUy8o0fknBrW0
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“Waterman affirms Echezonachukwu Nduka’s stature as an experienced poet. The poems are carefully crafted, highly descriptive, and flow rhythmically. Through the collection, the poet’s experiences of navigating through urban society come alive through images of music, water, and Catholicism. There are keen observations, witty and memorable images, and beautiful philosophical statements that make the poetry reading experience exhilarating. Nduka’s Waterman is versatile and uplifting.”
- TANURE OJAIDE
“A wonderfully winding work of a voice matured. Echezonachukwu Nduka’s work is lyrical and the words jump to life on the page.”
- ERIN CASTALDI
“As a poet, Echezonachukwu Nduka brings his classical musician’s light and swift hands to the page. In an even, sober voice, these mostly narrative poems open like nocturnes—in slow, deliberate, contemplative, and measured prose until their accents quicken and the reader is caught in a surprising orchestra of metaphors.”
- AMATORITSERO EDE
“In Waterman the vibrant poetry of Echezonachukwu Nduka takes imaginative leaps and turns, finds meanings in kindred places, from the streets of Margate to the currents of the Niger; and in people, from the old teacher to the sole artist. Speaking sometimes as the young philosopher, Nduka spins an entrancing web of imagery and mesmerizing vortex of ideas. His passion for music runs like a leitmotif throughout his poems, striking notes that illuminate our humanity and spirituality. In his masterful poem “Transition” he speaks of “harmonic resonance of all unguarded hours….” Here the old teacher asks, “Who owns language?” In this transcendent poem we can safely say Nduka owns the language, fills it with wonder, and makes it new again.”
- ANTOINETTE LIBRO