Rebeca Omordia & Universes in THE MATRIX

You are in a matrix in the original sense of "source". It is a "small-world" network, meaning that the nodes inside it — mirroring human society & the 6 degrees phenomenon — tend to within a few steps of everybody else inside it. The matrix was built to allow regional Brazilian musicians to be discoverable-degrees away from everybody else in the arts world (and so the whole world), and by logical necessity this m.o. requires not only that the great Brazilians be matrixed, but so far as possible, all working artists in our time. Ergo:

This Rebeca Omordia matrix node is steps away from the entire planet by the well-known small-world ("6 degrees") phenomenon dictating that in human society you yourself are within several degrees of Rebeca Omordia.
THESE ARTIST NODES are routed to from this Rebeca Omordia node.

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Who & Where

Name: Rebeca Omordia
City/Place: London
Country: United Kingdom
Hometown: Craiova, Romania

Current News

What's Up? "Rebeca Omordia is half Romanian, half Nigerian – and it’s a powerful combination! Rebeca’s technique knows no bounds but, more importantly, she plays with a depth of insight and understanding which is all too rare today."
- Julian Lloyd Webber, London Magazine

Life & Work

Bio: London based award-winning Nigerian-Romanian pianist Rebeca Omordia was born in Romania to a Romanian mother and a Nigerian father. Having begun to establish a profile in her native country, she moved to the UK to study at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and later at Trinity College of Music in London. She holds Doctor in Music degree from the National University of Music in Bucharest, Romania.

Recently featured on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, and as Artist of the Month in the Classical Music Magazine, Rebeca Omordia is known as a vibrant, exciting virtuoso throughout the UK and overseas whose work has changed the face of classical music.

Described by the Guardian, Nigeria as “the pianist who cast a spell on Lagos”, in recent seasons Rebeca Omordia has toured Nigeria and the USA as a recitalist and she has performed as a soloist with MUSON (Musical Society of Nigeria) Symphony Orchestra and with Romanian National Radio Orchestra.

An “African classical music pioneer” (BBC World Service) , Rebeca released her CD “EKELE” in 2018, featuring piano music by African composers, described as an "appealing album" (BBC Music Magazine), "fascinating programme" (Gramophone Magazine) and “beautifully delivered recital" (The Sunday Times). In 2019 she launched world's first ever African Concert Series in London, a series of monthly concerts featuring music by African composers.

Rebeca Omordia has worked with an array of international musicians, including a three year- partnership with world renowned British cellist Julian Lloyd Webber; they toured the UK performing in venues such as the Wigmore Hall and Kings Place in London, at Highgrove, the residence of Prince of Wales, and they made live broadcasts for BBC Radio 3. Further musical partnerships have included performances and recordings for Meridian Records with South African double bass virtuoso Leon Bosch, a recording for English Music Records with cellist Joseph Spooner and collaborations with cellists Raphael Wallfisch, Jiaxin Lloyd Webber and Chineke! Chamber ensemble. Rebeca's CD with British pianist Mark Bebbington, “The Piano Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams”, reached no. 3 in the UK’s Specialist Classical Music Chart. Rebeca’s arrangement for cello and harp of “Seal Lullaby” by Grammy-winning American composer Eric Whitacre was released on Deutsche Grammophon.

Rebeca was a jury member in the 13th HRH Princess Lalla Meryem International Piano Competition in Rabat, Morocco.

In 2016 she was awarded the Honorary Membership Award from Royal Birmingham Conservatoire for her services to music.

These artist nodes route to this Rebeca Omordia node:

THE MATRIX WAS BUILT HERE, inspired in (the kabbalah-inspired fiction of) Borges' El Aleph, that in the pillar in Cairo's Mosque of Amr, where the universe in its entirety throughout all time is perceivable as an infinite hum from deep within the stone... The Brazilian "aleph" is different though...it doesn't hum...it sings!

Sprawled across broad equatorial latitudes
Stoked and steamed and sensual in the widest sense of the word
Limned in prosody and cadenced song
brəˈzɪl / from "brasa" / Latin for "ember"

w/ David Dye for U.S. National Public Radio

Given the immense untapped power of the small-world phenomenon, from Brazilians the matrix was expanded to include nodes per jazz artists, given jazz's common roots with Brazilian music (nodes based in publicly available information; some artists we informed — Bob Mintzer, Kamasi Washington, David "Fuse" Fiuczynski, Vijay Iyer, Greg Osby — and got thumbs up, others we'll get to), and moved on from there. Artists/academics/"creative people" are welcome to create their own nodes and curate (connect to other artist nodes, so that others may follow). BTW, our logo is a cortador de cana, cane cutter. It was designed by Walter Mariano, professor of design at the Federal University of Bahia to reflect the origins of the music the shop specializes in.

MUCH MORE on all of this in the window below (which, if you are logged in, will instead contain instructions on recommending), and in the window within that window (which includes a "radio" called by The Guardian one of "10 of the best music radio stations around the world"):