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Biography

Chinyere Obasi is a writer of music and words, sometimes together and sometimes apart, based in Boston, Massachusetts.

His short musical, The Immigrant Project (composer, lyricist, bookwriter), won the inaugural Nebraska Thespian Musicalworks competition in 2020, and his full-length musical, The Fortunates (co-librettist) was premiered by the Office for the Arts at Harvard in 2021.  His first full-length play, under control / utter chaos, premiered in 2023.

He has collaborated with organizations such as the Hyperion Shakespeare Company (as composer/orchestrator for their production of The Winter’s Tale and director/adaptor for King John), the Radcliffe Choral Society, the Veritas Ensemble, the Harvard Commencement Choir, and the Crossing Choir. He was the 2021 winner of the Bach Society Prize for Classical Composition, the 2022 Francis Boott Prize for Choral Composition, and the 2024 SummerSong Festival Composers’ Grant.

Obasi received a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, where he studied the history and philosophy of science.