Chineke! Orchestra is delighted to be making its debut at the Chipping Campden Music Festival.

As well as featuring works by leading black and ethnically diverse composers both living and from the past, the programme celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of Vaughan Williams. Chineke! Principal Oboe, Armand Djikoloum, will perform the beautifully pastoral Oboe Concerto written during the war and first performed at the BBC proms in 1944.

Chineke! and St George’s Bristol commissioned James B Wilson to write the work Free-man to commemorate the actions of Dr Paul Stephenson and others, who campaigned to end racial discrimination during the 1963 Bristol Bus Boycotts.

The programme includes the jubilant African Suite by Fela Sowande, one of the foremost proponents of modern Nigerian art music, as well as Dvorák’s enduring Serenade for Strings, one of the composer's most popular works.

Performers

• Chineke! Orchestra

• Odaline de la Martinez conductor

• Armand Djikoloum oboe

Repertoire

• Antonín Dvořák: Serenade for strings

• Ralph Vaughan Williams: Oboe Concerto

• Interval

• James B Wilson: Free-man (London premiere)

• Fela Sowande: African Suite