This year the Campus Project journeys to Nigeria: the Afrobeat band BANTU together with young people from Germany and Nigeria weave their different musical languages into a transtraditional experience.
Thu. 11.9.2025
19:30, University of Bonn, Aula
Campus Concert: Nigeria
- Cross-Genre
- € 38 / 28 / 18
Campus-Projekt 2025 © Beethovenfest Bonn 
BANTU © Victor Adewale 
Cassie Kinoshi © Aurore Fouchez 
Isaiah Oladele Odeyale © Victor Adewale
Contributors
- Members of the National Youth Orchestra of Germany
- Young musicians from Nigeria
- Members of BANTU
- Adé Bantu concept & vocals
- Isaiah Oladele Odeyale musical director & trombone
- Cassie Kinoshi saxophone & composition
Programme
Transtraditional music featuring ideas from Ludwig van Beethoven and Nigerian culture
18:45 Pre-concert talk (in German)
Live Stream of the concert on beethovenfest.de/streams and on the YouTube channel of Deutschen Welle DW Classical – available also after the concert.
Description
Lagos, Nigerian cultural metropolis and African megacity – the city is currently undergoing rapid development, boasts a vibrant musical life, and is considered the unofficial cultural capital of Africa. This year the Campus Project, an international youth project of Beethovenfest and Deutsche Welle, focuses on Nigeria. The country in transition is the perfect meeting place for a festival that, with the numerous global changes of our time, has adopted the motto »Alles ultra«.
Young musicians from the host country join together with members of the National Youth Orchestra of Germany in Lagos and Bonn for intensive rehearsals. Under the artistic direction of the Afrobeat band BANTU, they develop their own music for a cross-cultural concert where Beethoven meets Nigerian musical tradition and the country’s current musical trends in pop culture. As a composer, Nigerian/Vincentian-British saxophonist Cassie Kinoshi will be participating. How it will ultimately sound depends entirely on the collaboration process of all the musicians. What’s for certain: we can look forward to a unique evening!
Concert recording by Deutsche Welle