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Winner of the BSO’s Calleva Conducting Competition, and recently listed as Classic FM’s Rising Stars list for 2025 as one of 30 incredible musicians under 30, Enyi is the Calleva Assistant Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Described as a “talent to watch,” He is also the Artistic Director and Founder of Elysium Music, and previously the Conductor in Residence for the London Schools Symphony Orchestra during the 2023/24 season. He was previously a finalist in the inaugural Weston Conductors Competition 2022, where he conducted the National Youth Brass Band, and a Young Conducting Scholar with the national choral charity Sing for Pleasure in 2021-22.
Enyi recently studied for an MA in Orchestral Conducting with Sian Edwards at the Royal Academy of Music. He graduated in 2024 with Distinction and was awarded a DipRAM prize for outstanding final recital. He also won the Conducting Prize for the highest final recital mark and won HRH Princess Alice, The Duchess of Gloucester Prize for exemplary studentship and performance.
Upcoming Events
Calling all KS1 schools in Somerset - join us for an exciting free concert and to explore the great, vast unknown, and to uncover new adventures.
Designed especially for a KS1 audience, this 1-hour presented concert, features an ensemble of fourteen musicians from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Performing a fun new programme, ‘New Adventures’ will showcase the instruments of the orchestra and explore how musicians and composers have stretched the boundaries of music to explore and discover the vast open spaces of our world. The concert will also showcase a participatory song co-created with students from Somerset.
The performance will support the KS1 area of the curriculum and will give children a valuable concert experience, taking them on a musical journey from orchestral classics, well known music from film and musicals, and popular jazz numbers.
Calling all KS1 schools in Somerset - join us for an exciting free concert and to explore the great, vast unknown, and to uncover new adventures.
Designed especially for a KS1 audience, this 1-hour presented concert, features an ensemble of fourteen musicians from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Performing a fun new programme, ‘New Adventures’ will showcase the instruments of the orchestra and explore how musicians and composers have stretched the boundaries of music to explore and discover the vast open spaces of our world. The concert will also showcase a participatory song co-created with students from Somerset.
The performance will support the KS1 area of the curriculum and will give children a valuable concert experience, taking them on a musical journey from orchestral classics, well known music from film and musicals, and popular jazz numbers.
Next Events
Previous Events
Experience a ground-breaking fusion of turntablism and orchestral music with the world premiere performance of Parable, inspired by the graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower.
Award-winning turntablist, DJ and producer NikNak joins forces with Chineke! Orchestra for an innovative new work that bridges electronic soundscapes with classical instrumentation. This bold collaboration reimagines storytelling through sound, using turntables as an instrument in dialogue with a full orchestra.
This new orchestral piece, created in collaboration with acclaimed cellist Ayanna Witter-Johnson, explores Parable of the Sower’s powerful themes of resilience, community and change, transforming the novel’s dystopian themes into a compelling sound world.
We’re very proud of our Calleva Assistant Conductor Enyi Okpara who recently made Classic FM’s 30 under 30 list. The prestigious list shines a light on 30 musicians under the age of 30 who are changing the classical music landscape.
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (BSO) announces Enyi Okpara as its Calleva Assistant Conductor for the 2024/25 concert season. The role, which received 120 applications, provides a platform to build professional experience and development, with mentoring from some of the world’s leading names in classical music.
Enyi Okpara awarded Bob and Beryl Harding Bursary for Young Conductors with Havant Symphony Orchestra