Biography Of Ifetayo Ali

Ifetayo Ali-Landing

2017 Junior Division – 1st Place Laureate
2016 Junior Division – 2nd Place Laureate

Ifetayo Ali-Landing, 15, began her musical studies on violin and switched to cello at the age of four. Her teachers and coaches have included Lucinda Ali-Landing, Megan Lauterbach, and Martine Benmann at the Hyde Park Suzuki Institute in Chicago, as well as Tahirah Whittington, Oleksa Mycyk, and Hans Jørgen Jensen. Additionally, she has studied with teachers at the summer music camps of the Chicago Suzuki Institute (Deerfield, IL), Illinois Wesleyan University, Sphinx Performance Academy, Meadowmount School of Music, and the Young  Artists Program.

Ifetayo is the Sphinx Competition Junior Division First-Place Laureate for 2017 and performed as soloist with the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra at Orchestra Hall in Detroit. At the 2016 Sphinx Competition, she was awarded Second-Place Laureate in the Junior Division. Ifetayo was also one of the winners of the 2016 DePaul Concerto Festival for Young Performers and performed as soloist with the Festival’s Oistrakh Symphony Orchestra. She has also performed with the Wilmington (NC) Symphony, New World Symphony, and Detroit Symphony.

In 2013, at the age of ten, Ifetayo was honored at the Friends of the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra Rising Stars Showcase, where she recorded the 1st movement of the Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto (No. 1). To date, the video has over 75,000 YouTube views and over 10 million Facebook views. She also recorded “Celtic Hymn” by James MacMillan, who discovered the video and complimented Ifetayo via Twitter. Her most recent YouTube recordings are the first movement of the Shostakovich Cello Concerto (No. 1) and Pampeana No. 2 by Alberto Ginastera.

Ifetayo also enjoys singing, dancing, and playing piano.

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 (Children Home Lessons).

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MUSIC/MUSICAL INSTRUMENT TRAINING PROGRAMMES FOR INDIVIDUALS, SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES (Children Home Lessons available).

The Music and Musical Instruments Training Programme is projected towards meeting a need in our society for a selected ensemble where talented children, young singers, intending instrumentalists can be trained in music reading, tone production, blending, correct posture and breathing, ear training, diction, conduction, expressive singing, sight playing and music interpretation, enabling trainees to perform gallantly and competently anywhere in the world.

The training is divided into three categories:

1.      Rudiments of Music/ General Practical Classes.

2.      Establishment of Music Club: Talents haunt Club for schools only, where pupils, Secondary and Tertiary students can participate regularly in the weekly rehearsals, practically demonstrating acquired skills and be taught in a simple way of approaching singing confidently, and playing of musical instruments with dexterity.

3.      Refurbishing Training. (For young and old singers, School Orchestras and Band, School Choral Group, Church Choir, Young and old Instrumentalists etc.)

The Musical Instrument training is very significant in Music Training Programme and it needs more attention and proficiency, because it provides an extraordinary effect in the quality of music production and thereby adding colour to its original beauty. Music is incomplete without musical instruments. The Musical Instruments of interest are in four groups:

STRING INSTRUMENTS:

       (a)   Violin

       (b)   Viola

       (c)   Cello

       (d)   Double Bass 

       (e)   Piano/ Organ

WOODWIND INSTRUMENTS:

      (a)   Recorder 

      (b)   Flute 

      (c)   Clarinet

     (d)   Saxophones (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Baritone and Bass saxophones)

BRASS INSTRUMENTS:

     (a)   Cornet 

     (b)   Trumpet 

     (c)   Trombone

     (d)   French-Horn

     (e)   Tuba

     (f)    Sousaphone.

PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS:

     (a)   Cymbals Drum

     (b)   Bass Drum

     (c)   Snare Drum

     (d)   Tom-Tom

     (e)   Tenor Drum

     (f)    Complete Drum set

     (g)   Conga Drum 

     (h)   Parade Drum etc.

N.B.

i.    A reasonable number of the above mentioned instruments are necessary for an effective orchestra training (secondary schools inclusive) depending on your scale of preference.

ii.   Primary School pupils may not need some of the Brass Instruments because of their peculiarities.

iii.  Individuals interested in home training should get their personal instruments ready before the commencement of the training.

iv.  All classes are charged per hour and attract different charges:

vi.  We can help in the procurement of very good musical instruments for Individuals, Group, Schools and Churches.

v.   We are reliable, experienced and result oriented.

vii. Training Manuals and Repertoires available for distribution.

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