16/12/2023
Mr. Sunday Anuoluwapo Ajayi will be live at Jogor School Of Music JOSOM Carol Concert coming up on the 19th of Dec, 2023 at Felicia Hall of Jogor centre Oke-Ado, Ibadan.
Here's Abit about the great man Sunday Anuoluwapo Ajayi ๐๐๐
Sunday Anuoluwapo Ajayi is a trained pianist/organist and a composer. He holds an OND in music technology from The Polytechnic Ibadan, Nigeria, and graduated as an organ performance major under the tutelage of the Late Dr. Christopher Ayodele. He holds a BA in music from the prestigious Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, as a piano performance major under the tutelage of Prof. O. M. A. Daramola. He has also obtained an MA in Music Theory and Composition from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. Ajayi started his musicianship as a choirboy at Jehovah Nissi African Church Cathedral, Araromi, Ilesa, Nigeria. Being a son of a priest (Ven. P. B. A. Ajayi Rtd.) of the African Church offered him the rare privilege of developing exceptional abilities in church music making, and he ended up studying music at a professional level.As a composer, Sunday has studied several works of some great Western and African composers like J. S. Bach, W. A. Mozart, F. Chopin, Claude Debussy, Ayo Bankole, Joshua Uzoigwe, Ayo Oluranti, โSeun Owoaje and Dotun Olayemi to mention but a few. He has been able to compose and arrange several choral and instrumental works. Some of his musical works are Were Lo Ba Mi Se for SATB; Omo To De Baba Ni for Tenor Solo; We Need You Lord for SATB and Organ; Alasepe for SATB and Organ; Eru O Bami for SATB and Organ; Seโfe Tire for Solo/Chorus and Organ; Jesu Mi Jinde for Solo/Chorus, Piano and Organ; Oluwa Ku Ise in F Sharp Minor for Piano; Olurombi in G Major for Piano and African Instruments; etc.Sunday Ajayi is currently a Junior Art Fellow at the Department of Performing Arts (Music Unit), Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Nigeria. He is also the Technical Director of The Nightingales Int'l Ibadan, and the Organist of the Cathedral of St James the Great, Oke-Bola, Ibadan. He is happily married to Oluwaseun Mercy Ajayi, and the union is blessed with two handsome boys.
Sunday A. Ajayi