Chi-chi Nwanoku

Chi-Chi Nwanoku
Birth nameChinyere Adah Nwanoku
BornJune 1956 (age 6869)
Fulham, London, England
Websitewww.chineke.org/our-founder

Chinyere Adah "Chi-Chi" Nwanoku CBE (/ˈɪi ˈnwænk/; born June 1956) is a British double bassist and professor of Historical Double Bass Studies at the Royal Academy of Music. Nwanoku was a founder member and principal bassist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, a position she held for 30 years.

Of Nigerian and Irish descent, she was the founder and Artistic Director of the Chineke! Orchestra, the first professional orchestra & junior orchestra in Europe to be made up of a majority of Black and ethnically diverse musicians.