ayo oluranti

Ayo Oluranti, Nigerian composer and organist, earned a B.A in Music (Composition and Performance) from the University of Southampton, UK, and is currently working towards a PhD (Composition and Theory) at the University of Pittsburgh. Ayo, who also serves as Composer in Residence and Assistant Organist at St Andrew's Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh, is an advocate of both traditional and the contemporary 'experimental' approaches to music. In his compositions, he experiments with the fusion of elements from Western Art music and African music, especially the traditional music of the Yoruba and Igbo of Nigeria. Ayo is a strong advocate of the aesthetics of postmodernism in composition.

Ayo Oluranti, the winner of 2009 Donald Sutherland Endowment Fund Composition Competition (USA), has won several awards, prizes and scholarships: St. Michael's Organ scholarship (UK), Tafawa Balewa Scholarship (British-Nigeria Association, UK), Heather Award (University of Southampton), Michael James Music Trust Award (UK), Sidney Perry Award (UK), Brereton Memorial Fund grants (UK).