Chi-chi Nwanoku

Chinyere Adah "Chi-Chi" Nwanoku CBE is a British double bassist and professor of Historical Double Bass Studies at the Royal Academy of Music. Nwanoku was a founder member and principal bassist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, a position she held for 30 years. Of Nigerian and Irish descent, she was the founder and artistic director of the Chineke! Orchestra, the first professional orchestra and junior orchestra in Europe to be made up of a majority of Black and ethnically diverse musicians. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi-chi...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)