Chineke! Orchestra

The Chineke! Foundation was created by Chi-chi Nwanoku CBE in 2015 to provide outstanding career opportunities to established and up-and-coming Black and ethnically diverse classical musicians in the UK and Europe.

The aims of the Chineke! Foundation and Orchestra are certainly ambitious, and in the words of Sir Simon Rattle: ‘Chineke! is not only an exciting idea but a profoundly necessary one.