DAY 1 (ARRIVAL)
- 2pm – 3.30pm :
Symposium - 4pm – 5pm :
Composition Workshop - 5.30pm – 6.30pm :
Piano recital
Training being the lever and the foundation to the mastery of artistic practice.
This edition is intended to be a melting pot where the various participants will
have the opportunity to benefit from knowledge in the various practices of
vocal art.
Beyond these works dedicated to choirs, Kenn Kafui has also developed piano works
which will be revisited through a piano recital concert.
A GRAND CONCERT will close this edition of the festival where the best choirs from Ghana will share the same
stage with international choirs from Togo, Benin and Ivory Coast around the works of Kenn Kafui.
This Festival in order to Celebrate, commemorate and promote the compositional works of one of the famous musicians and composers in Ghana, the distinguished Master of Art in Music Mr Kenn Kafui who passed away in year 2020.
It is also an opportunity for all participants to discover this great man, his art, his style and his works.
His Music is able to inspire, comfort, lead, follow, and affect every listener in immeasurable ways.
And of course, Bringing people together around music is an amazing way to engage and enjoy with others and to discover common goals and aspirations.
Music binds us together.
We wish to thank you all in advance for your participation which will help preserve Kenn Kafui memory and also consolidate his legacy.
We are so excited to welcome you on this edition.
See ya all soon!
DAY 1 (ARRIVAL)
DAY 2
DAY 3
Kenn Kafui was one of the most outstanding composers produced by the Music Department, (IAS) SPA,
University of Ghana, Legon. He was born and bred at Hohoe in the Volta region of Ghana.
He entered the University of Ghana at a very youthful age after form five, and studied for the General
Diploma in Music at the Must Department (IAS) now School of Performing Art from October 1972 to June 1975.
He was a student of Commonwealth Hall, and latter became the Hall’s organist. Kenn served his National
Service at the Music Department UG. Legon in 1976, and was also employed to teach on the Extension…
Kenneth Kwaku Avotri Kafui was a distinguished Ghanaian composer and music educator, recognised for his innovative fusion of indigenous African musical traditions with classical forms. His contributions to the field include globally acclaimed compositions such as "Pentanata" and "Mida Akpe." His lasting legacy in instrumental and choral music continues to inspire successive generations, and this concert serves to commemorate his extraordinary contributions to Ghanaian music and culture.
Ken Kafui is remembered as a renowned Ghanaian composer, music theorist, and educator, whose choral and orchestral works are widely appreciated. His influence continues to shape Ghanaian art music through his impact on students, young composers, and colleagues.
The gift, talent and the service that pleases God---the creative works of Kenn Kafui will always live in our hearts as a good example of a talent offered back in praise songs to the Maker the Giver, and the source of all good gifts.
Kenneth Kwaku Avotri Kafui was a brilliant Ghanaian composer and a music lecturer known for his unique style in combining African musical elements with Western style of composition. In fact he has developed his own style of Arts music composition that is recognised globally. A lot of art music composers are inspired by how he treated his melodic lines and also his harmony that sound like "African baroque and classical music " expecially in his most popular song "Mida Akpe na Mawu " in which he employed syncopation between the soprano part singing the same note with high pitches in "staccato"', and the tenor and bass parts moving in third up and down to create a wonderful counter point. This style is seen in most of his pieces and that is what made him so unique amongst his peers, and it has become a compositional device for young composers today.
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We ‘re the most delighted to welcome you on this 1st edition rendez-vous of Friendship and Celebration through this Festival Activities
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