EDUCATION

2004 D.M.A.   [Organ performance and composition] Louisiana State University.
2000 M.MUS. [Organ performance and church music] University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
1998 M.A.      [Ethnomusicology and African music] University of Pittsburgh, PA.
1988 B.A.       [Piano performance and composition].
1982-86          Certificates in piano, theory, and general musicianship of the Associated
            Board of the Royal Schools of Music, London.
      
TEACHING EXPERIENCE/ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2007-          Professor of Music at Talladega College, Talladega, Alabama.
2005-07       Assistant Professor of Music at LeMoyne-Owen College, Memphis, Tennessee.
2003-05       Adjunct Faculty at Baton Rouge Community College, Louisiana.
1998-00       Teaching Assistant at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
1995-98       Visiting Lecturer at Thiel College, Greenville, Pennsylvania.
1994-98       Teaching Assistant at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1988-94       Music Lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria.

COURSES TAUGHT

Music of Africa, World Music, History of American Jazz, Music Appreciation, Theory of Music, Form and Analysis, Counterpoint, General Musicianship [ear training, sight singing, and keyboard harmony], History of Music, Choral Conducting, Choral Literature, Choral Arranging, Composition, Piano, Organ, Voice, Church Music, Church Music Administration, History of Black Gospel Music, Hymnology.

ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS

2005-07      Director of Sacred Music Program at LeMoyne-Owen College, TN.
2005-07      Director of Concert Choir at LeMoyne-Owen College, Memphis, TN.
1980-         Organist/Choir Director in several churches in Nigeria and the United States.

SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES AND INSTITUTIONS

1994-  Several papers presented at various conferences, workshops, colleges and universities in the United States and                 Nigeria.


FORTHCOMING

“Ayo Bankole’s FESTAC Cantata: A Paradigm for Intercultural Composition.” Accepted in The Diapason  on March 8, 2010.

"A Cultural Analysis of Fela Sowande's Organ Works." Accepted in Royal College of Organists Journal on March 8, 2010.

“Contextualizing the Intercultural Process in Ayo Bankole’s Music.” Accepted in Musical Times on March 1, 2010.

“The Organs at the Cathedral Church of Christ, Lagos, Nigeria.” Accepted in Organ Club Journal on March 1, 2010.

“Intercultural Perspectives in Fela Sowande’s Organ Works.”  Accepted in Organists’ Review on March 1, 2010.

“Analytical Discourse of Ayo Bankole’s Organ Compositions.”  Accepted in Organists’ Review on March 1, 2010.

"Thomas Ekundayo Phillips's Cantata: A Musical Epic of Israel." Accepted in Vox Humana on January 22, 2010.

“Samuel Akpabot’s Verba Christi: A Dramatic Oeuvre on the Words of Jesus.” Accepted in Vox Humana on January 22, 2010.

"Understanding the Orchestra Works of Samuel Akpabot: A Nigerian Composer-Ethnomusicologist." Accepted in Musical Times on July 30, 2009.


PUBLISHED ARTICLES

“The Louisiana Sinfonietta Presents the Mitropoulos Festival of Folk Music of the World.”  Published at www.thefreelibrary.com,
July 1, 2010.

"Dinos Constantinides and His Organ Works." Published at www.thefreelibrary.com, June 18, 2010.

"African Musicology: A Bibliographical Guide to Nigerian Art Music (1927-2009)." MLA Notes 66, No. 3 (March 2010): 485-502.

"Modern Nigerian Music: The Post-Colonial Experience."  Musical Times 150, No. 1908 (Autumn 2009): 79-84.

"Classical Music Personalities."  Published at www.africagogo.com, June 4, 2009.

“The Emergence of Percussion in Nigerian Art Music.” Percussive Notes 46, No. 6 (December 2008): 52-61.

"Celebrating the Cathedral Church of Christ Choir, Lagos, Nigeria, at Ninety." The Diapason 99, No. 9 (September 2008): 25-29.

"Samuel Akpabot: Profile of a Nigerian Modern Composer." Living Music Journal 22, No. 1 (March 2008): 9-14.

“Thomas Ekundayo Phillips: Pioneer in Nigerian Church Hymn Composition.” The Diapason 99, No. 3 (March 2008): 29-33.

“Twentieth-Century Nigerian Composers.” Choral Journal 47, No. 10 (April 2007): 33-39.

“Nigerian Art Music Composers.” NTAMA Journal of African Music and Popular Culture, Universität Hildesheim, Germany.  Online Publication at http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/ntama (January 10, 2007).

“Joy Nwosu Lo-Bamijoko: A Nigerian Music Icon and Trail Blazer.”  NTAMA Journal of African Music and Popular Culture, Universität Hildesheim, Germany. Online Publication at http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/ntama (January 10, 2007).

“Hybrid Composition: An Introduction to the Age of Atonality in Nigeria.” The Diapason 97, No. 11 (November 2006): 22-25.

"Understanding Akin Euba’s Wakar Duru: Studies in African Pianism Nos. I-III.” Living Music Journal 21,
No. 1 (Spring 2006): 19-23. 

“Joy Nwosu Lo-Bamijoko.”  Published at http://africadatabase.org April 26, 2006.  In Contemporary Africa Database,  London.
Currently, Archive Version of CAD is available at http://web.archive.org/web/20031219062856/people.africadatabase.org

“Christopher Oyesiku.” Published at http://africadatabase.org Feb. 14, 2006.  In Contemporary Africa Database, London.
Currently, Archive Version of CAD is available at http://web.archive.org/web/20031219062856/people.africadatabase.org

“Nigeria.”  In The Organ: An Encyclopedia. New York: Routledge Press, 2006, pp. 370-371.

“Fela Sowande: The Legacy of a Nigerian Music Legend.”  The Diapason 96, No. 12 (December 2005) : 22-23.

“A Historical Survey of Congregational Singing and Hymnody in Nigeria.” The Hymn 56, No. 3 (Summer 2005) : 31-38.

“The Creative Experience of a Contemporary Nigerian Composer.” Living Music Journal 20, No. 1 (Spring 2005) : 6-9.
 
“Intercultural Creativity in Joshua Uzoigwe’s Music.”  Africa 74, no. 4 (Dec. 2004) : 633-661.  Africa is the official journal of the International African Institute, London, United Kingdom.

“Akin Euba.”  Online publication at http://africadatabase.org December, 2003. In Contemporary Africa Database, London.
Currently, Archive Version of CAD is available at http://web.archive.org/web/20031219062856/people.africadatabase.org

“Akin Euba.”  Published at http://www.black-international-cinema.com December, 2003.  In A Dialogue of Civilizations: African Culture and Classical Music, by Fountainhead Tanz Theatre.

“Kwabena Nketia.”  Published at http://africadatabase.org October, 2003. In Contemporary Africa Database, London.
Currently, Archive Version of CAD is available at http://web.archive.org/web/20031219062856/people.africadatabase.org

“Samuel Akpabot.” Published at http://africadatabase.org  October 2003. In Contemporary Africa Database, London.
Currently, Archive Version of CAD is available at http://web.archive.org/web/20031219062856/people.africadatabase.org

“Victor Uwaifo.”  Published at http://africadatabase.org October, 2003.  In Contemporary Africa Database, London.
Currently, Archive Version of CAD is available at http://web.archive.org/web/20031219062856/people.africadatabase.org

“King Sunny Ade.”  Published at http://africadatabase.org October, 2003. In Contemporary Africa Database, London.
Currently, Archive Version of CAD is available at http://web.archive.org/web/20031219062856/people.africadatabase.org

“Meki Nzewi.”  Published at http://africadatabase.org October, 2003. In Contemporary Africa Database, London.
Currently, Archive Version of CAD is available at http://web.archive.org/web/20031219062856/people.africadatabase.org

“Okechuckwu Ndubuisi.”  Published at http://africadatabase.org October, 2003. In Contemporary Africa Database, London.
Currently, Archive Version of CAD is available at http://web.archive.org/web/20031219062856/people.africadatabase.org

“Lazarus Ekwueme.”  Published at http://africadatabase.org September, 2003. In Contemporary Africa Database, London.
Currently, Archive Version of CAD is available at http://web.archive.org/web/20031219062856/people.africadatabase.org

“Ayo Bankole.”  Published at http://africadatabase.org September, 2003. In Contemporary Africa Database, London.
Currently, Archive Version of CAD is available at http://web.archive.org/web/20031219062856/people.africadatabase.org

“Thomas Ekundayo Phillips.”  Published at http://africadatabase.org September, 2003.  In Contemporary Africa Database.
Currently, Archive Version of CAD is available at http://web.archive.org/web/20031219062856/people.africadatabase.org

“Fela Sowande.”  Published at http://africadatabase.org September, 2003. In Contemporary Africa Database, London.
Currently, Archive Version of CAD is available at http://web.archive.org/web/20031219062856/people.africadatabase.org

“Joshua Uzoigwe.”  Published at http://africadatabase.org September, 2003.  In Contemporary Africa Database, London.
Currently, Archive Version of CAD is available at http://web.archive.org/web/20031219062856/people.africadatabase.org

"Godwin Sadoh."  Published at http://africadatabase.org September, 2003.  In Contemporary Africa Database, London.
Currently, Archive Version of CAD is available at http://web.archive.org/web/20031219062856/people.africadatabase.org

“A Profile of Nigerian Organist-Composers.”  The Diapason 94, no.8 [August 2003] : 20-23.

“Creativity and Dance in Joshua Uzoigwe’s Music.”  Composer-USA 9, no. 2 [Spring 2003] : 4-5. 

“A Profile of Nigerian Organist-Composers.”  The Organ 80, no. 323 [Feb-Mar 2003] : 18-23. 

“A Centennial Epitome of the Organs at the Cathedral Church of Christ, Lagos, Nigeria.”  The Organ 80, no. 320 [May-June 2002] : 27-30.

“The Creative Process in Nigerian Hymn-Based Compositions.” The Diapason 93, no. 8 [August 2002] : 15-17.

“Music at the Anglican Youth Fellowship, Ile-Ife, Nigeria: An Intercultural Experience.”  The Hymn 52, no. 1 [January 2001] : 16-20.

PUBLISHED BOOKS

Thomas Ekundayo Phillips: The Doyen of Nigerian Church Music. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse Publishing, 2009.

Samuel Akpabot: The Odyssey of a Nigerian Composer-Ethnomusicologist. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse Publishing, 2008.

Joshua Uzoigwe: Memoirs of a Nigerian Composer-ethnomusicologist.  S.C.: Booksurge Publishing, 2007.

Intercultural Dimensions in Ayo Bankole's Music.  New York: iUniverse Publishing, 2007. [Amazon.com No. 1 Bestseller in Ethnomusicology].

The Organ Works of Fela Sowande: Cultural Perspectives.  New York: iUniverse Publishing, 2007.

The Organ Works of Fela Sowande: A Nigerian Organist-Composer. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI, ProQuest Company, December, 2004.  

COMPOSITIONS ACCEPTED IN 2010

Harmattan Overture for Symphony Orchestra and Nigerian Instruments [Wehr’s Music House]
Tribute to Homeland for Chamber Orchestra [Wehr’s Music House]
Three Pieces for Flute Solo [Wehr’s Music House]
Moonlight Dances for Piano Solo [Evensong Music]
Three Dances for Piano Solo [Evensong Music]
Childhood Dreams: Ten African Pieces for Piano Solo [Evensong Music]
Memoirs of Childhood: Three Pieces for Little Fingers [Evensong Music]
Three Sketches on Atonality for Piano Solo [Evensong Music]

PUBLISHED COMPOSITIONS

Summer Evening at Ile-Ife for Woodwind Quintet. FL.: Wehr's Music House, 2009.

A Bi Jesu for SATB and Organ. N.C.: Wayne Leupold Editions, 2008.

Ose Jesu for SATB and Organ. N.C.: Wayne Leupold Editions, 2008.

Lord Send Your Power for SATB and Piano. N.C.: Wayne Leupold Editions, 2008.

Open Your Mouth and Praise the Lord for SATB and Piano. N.C.: Wayne Leupold Editions, 2008.

Ope lo Ye O for SATB and Piano. N.C.: Wayne Leupold Editions, 2008.

Badagry for Woodwind Quartet. FL.: Wehr’s Music House, 2008.

Badagry for Saxophone Quartet. FL.: Wehr’s Music House, 2008.

Nigerian Organ Symphony.  W.I.: Evensong Music, 2008.

Five African Dances for Solo Organ.  W.I.: Evensong Music, 2007.

Five African Marches for Organ Solo. N.C.: Wayne :Leupold Editions, 2007.

Nigerian Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra. FL: Wehr’s Music House, 2007.

Nigerian Concerto for Trumpet and Piano. FL: Wehr’s Music, 2007.

Yoruba Wedding Dance for Brass Quintet.  FL: Wehr’s Music House, 2006.

Kabiyesi O Hosana for SATB and Organ. N.C.: Wayne Leupold Editions, 2006.

Keresimesi Odun de for SATB and Piano.  N.C.: Wayne Leupold Editions, 2006.

Ose Baba for SATB and Piano.  N.C.: Wayne Leupold Editions, 2006.

Clap Your Hands for SATB and Piano.  N.C.: Wayne Leupold Editions, 2006.

Gbo Ohun Awon Angeli for SATB and Piano.  N.C.: Wayne Leupold Editions, 2006.

Ise Oluwa for SATB and Piano.  N.C.: Wayne Leupold Editions, 2006.

Akoi Wata Geri for SATB and Piano. N.C.: Wayne Leupold Editions, 2006.

Twenty-five Preludes on Yoruba Church Hymns for Organ Solo. N.C.: Wayne Leupold Editions, 2006.

Nigerian Suite No. 2 for Organ Solo.  N.C.: Wayne Leupold Editions, 2006.

Jesu Oba for Organ and Trumpet.  FL: Wehr’s Music House, 2005.

E Korin S'Oluwa: Fifty Indigenous Christian Hymns from Nigeria. N.C.: Wayne Leupold Editions, 2005.

The Misfortune of a Wise Tortoise for Organ and Narrator. N.C.: Wayne Leupold Editions, U.S.A., 2005.

Impressions from an African Moonlight for Organ solo.  N.C.: Wayne Leuplold Editions, 2004.

Nigerian Suite No. 1 for Organ Solo.  N.C.: Wayne Leupold Editions, 2003.

MUSIC COMMISSIONS

July 24, 2007  Commissioned by Jonathan Orwig to compose Nigerian Organ Symphony.

July 24, 2005 Commissioned by Carson Cooman to compose Nigerian Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra.

July 24, 2005.  Commissioned by Carson Cooman to transcribe the Nigerian Concerto for Trumpet and Piano [Piano Reduction].

May 23, 2005 Commissioned by Carson Cooman to compose Jesu Oba for Organ and Trumpet.

Jan. 24, 2005 Commissioned by Carson Cooman to compose Nigerian Suite No. 2 for Organ Solo.

Feb. 20, 2003 Commissioned by Wayne Leupold to compose Organ Demonstrator to introduce young organists to the organ.

Oct. 20, 2002  Commissioned by Wayne Leupold to compose E Korin S’Oluwa: Fifty Indigenous Christian Hymns from Nigeria.

PUBLISHED ARTICLES ABOUT GODWIN SADOH

Adeniyi, Dapo.  “A Concert of Praise in Ife” [Concert Review].  Daily Times, Nigeria, 9 May, 1992.

Baker, David. “Godwin Sadoh: Three Books.” The Organ 86, No. 343 (March-May 2008): 53.

Balogun, Sola.  “Colors and Thrills at Children’s Choral” [Concert Review].  Lagos Life, Nigeria, 16 September, 1992.

Benner, Al.  “Meet the Composer: Godwin Sadoh.” ComposerUSA 13, No. 2 [Summer 2007]: 5.

Carter, Naki.  “LeMoyne-Owen College Concert Choir Presents A Christmas Festival of Lessons and Carols” [Concert Review]. Memphis Eyewitness News [November 28, 2006].

Doniach, Alex.  “Choir to Perform Holiday Concert.” Memphis CommercialAppeal [November 29, 2006].

___________.  “Ife Choral Society at it Again” [Concert Review].  Guardian Express [Nigeria], 6 January, 1993.

Flinchbaugh, Brent. "Jesu Oba: King Jesus."  International Trumpet Guild Journal [Review], 32, No. 3 [March 2008].

Lo-Bamijoko, Joy Nwosu.  “Godwin Sadoh’s Choral Works.”  The Diapason 98, No. 1 [Jan. 2007]: 16-17.

____________________. “New Hymn Book” [Book Review].  The Diapason 97, No. 7 [July 2006] :19.

Hawn, Michael. “E Korin S’Oluwa: Fifty Indigenous Christian Hymns from Nigeria” [Book Review]. The Hymn 57, No. 3
[Summer 2006]: 56-57.

Omojola, Bode.  Nigerian Art Music. Ibadan: Institute of African Studies, University Of Ibadan, 1995.

Price, Anne.  “Pursuing Music and Ministry.”  The Advocate, 2 March, 2003. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State, U.S.A.

Porter, Karla.  “Intercultural Worship.”  Newsletter, Church of the Nativity, Sarasota, Florida, March 2001, U.S.A.


Rayner, Roger.  “Nigerian Organ Symphony.” The Organ 87, No. 345 [Aug. 2008]: 51.

___________.  "Five African Dances." The Organ 87, No. 344 [May 2008]: 47.

Samuel, Christopher.  “May We Recommend?”  Pipeline 55, No. 4 [December 2003]: 5, U.S.A.

Sherley, Eric.  “Concert Choir Brings Christmas From Around the World” [Concert Review]. LeMoyne-Owen College Observer,  [December 2006]: 6.

Steele, Bruce. “The Coming of the GAMELAN.”  University Times, University of  Pittsburgh, 7 December, 1995, U.S.A.

Steve, Ayorinde.  “Pioneer in Public Solo Recital” [Concert Review]. Guardian, Nigeria, 15 May,1993.

Terry, Mickey Thomas. "The Organ Works of Fela Sowande: Cultural Perspectives and Intercultural Dimensions in Ayo Bankole's Music." The Diapason 100, No. 9 [September 2009]: 17-18.

Thompson, Marilyn. “Nigerian Ethnomusicologist-Organist-Composer Godwin Sadoh Authors Three Books on Important Nigerian Composers.” Reverberations 5, Issue 2 [December 2007]: 3-4.

“Graduate Students. . . Achievement in Progress.”  GPSA Report, University of Pittsburgh, December 1995, U.S.A.

Wirt, John.  “Sinfonietta Succeeds in Pleasing Children” [Concert Review]. The Advocate, February 10, 2006.

WORLD PREMIERES AND PERFORMANCES OF MY COMPOSITIONS

Canada, Costa Rica, England, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Nigeria, Norway, and the United States.

COMPACT DISC RECORDINGS

The Organ Works of Godwin Sadoh.  Organist: Carson Cooman.  Forthcoming.

Nigerian Wedding Dance for Piano.  Recorded on Compact Disc, in September, 2006, at Cambridge, Massachusetts. 
Pianist: Jeffrey Grossman.

A Suite of Nigerian Folk Songs.  Recorded on Compact Disc, on January 21, 2006, at the LSU Recording Studio. 
Performer:  Louisiana Sinfonietta. Conductor: Dr. Dinos Constantinides.

Nigerian Suite No. 1 for Organ Solo.  Recorded on Compact Disc, on August 11, 2004, in Moutfort, Luxembourg. 
Organist: Paul Fejko.                       


Childhood Dreams: Ten African Pieces for Piano.  Recording on Compact Disc, in March, 2003.
Pianist: Sallye Jeffcoat.

Godwin Sadoh’s D.M.A. Composition Recital.  Recorded at the LSU Studio, in November, 2002.
Performers: Louisiana State University Music Majors.

COLLECTIONS OF MY WORKS AT ARCHIVAL CENTERS

Music Resource Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, Atlanta, GA.
Music Library, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska.
Music Library, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Music Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Center for Black Music Research, Chicago, Illinois.

Music Library, University of Pretoria, South Africa.
Iwalewa-Haus, University of Bayreuth, Germany.
University of Chicago Library, Chicago, Illinois. 
Savery Library, Talladega College, Alabama.

Smithsonian Library, Washington, D.C.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Oberlin College Library, Oberlin, Ohio.

ORGAN PERFORMANCES

1981-Organ recitals and guest organist at several churches, colleges and universities in Nigeria and the United States.

PIANO PERFORMANCES

1984-Piano solo recitals and accompanist at various concerts, churches, colleges and universities in Nigeria and the U.S.

CHORAL CONDUCTING

1982-Choral training and conducting, choir director and minister of music at various churches, colleges and universities in                Nigeria and the United States.

WORLD CULTURES

1996-98     Instrumentalist in the Pitt.Gamelan Ensemble of the University of Pittsburgh.

1984-         Nigerian Traditional Instruments.

SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS

2000-04      LSU School of Music Alvin Hatton Organ Scholarship                
2000-03      LSU School of Music Spectacular Concert Scholarship
1998          Dora Dean Emerson Memorial Music Fellowship, University of Nebraska
1998-00      American Guild of Organists’ Student Scholarship, Lincoln Branch, NE.
1997          Dean’s Scholarship, University of Pittsburgh, PA.

HONORARY AWARDS

2007  Featured Composer in the 'Meet the Composer' column of the Composer-USA Newsletter, Summer issue, Vol. 13,                 No. 2, p. 5.
 
2004-ASCAPLUS Award in recognition of the performances, publications and recordings of my compositions around the                world.

2003Elected into the Beta Lambda Chapter of Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor’s Society in recognition and                 acknowledgment of the highest level of musical achievement and academic scholarship at the Louisiana State      University.

ACADEMIC COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP

2005-       Editorial Advisory Committee of the Black Music Research Journal.  The official journal of the Center for Black Music       Research, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois.


BIOGRAPHICAL LISTINGS

2009-  Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin_Sadoh
2007-  Who’s Who in the World.
2006-  Who’s Who in American Education.
2005-  Who’s Who in America.
2003-  Contemporary African Database, London. 


PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

2006-  Center for Black Music Research
2005-  International Society for Organ History and Preservation
2003-  The College Music Society [CMS]
2003-  Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honors Society
2002-  American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers [ASCAP]



A Suite of Nigerian Folksongs for strings