List of Staff

  • Orakwe Jude Toochukwu

  • jt.orakwe@coou.edu.ng
  • Jude
  • Toochukwu
  • Orakwe

  • Contact Info

  • 0818 752 6221
  • St. Joseph's Odoakpu Onitsha

  • About Yourself

  • Rev. Jude Orakwe is a graduate with master's degree from the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music, Rome, where he majored in Gregorian chant in 2008. He also had a doctorate in ethnomusicology from Indiana University Bloomington in 2015. Currently, he lectures at the music department of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Anambra State in Nigeria. Dr. Jude is the founder of George Handel Music Academy, an after-school music training forum for young people as well as the pioneer director of Shanahan Institute of Music, Onitsha. He is at present involved in multiple layers of music activities with various musical establishments in Onitsha and its environs.
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  • Lecturer 1
  • Sacred Music, Western and African Music, Ethnomusicology/Music Education
  • <p>Doctorate in Ethnomusicology (Indiana 2015)<br /> Master's in Music (Rome 2008)<br /> Licentiate in Music (Rome 2007)<br /> Bachelor's in Music (Rome 2007)<br /> Bachelor's in Theology (Rome 1998)<br /> Bachelor's in Philosophy (Rome 1993)</p>

  • Indiana University Bloomington, U.S.A. (2009 - 2015)
    Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music Rome, Italy (2003 - 2008)
    St. Joseph's Major Seminary Ikot Ekpene, Nigeria (1988 - 1993; 1994 -1998)

  • Echoes of deviance and the evolution of the principles of Marlianism in Nigerian popular music. Journal of the Association of Nigerian Musicologists, 2022: 16 (2), 143-153. ajol.info

    Music in Nigeria: Self-Introduction of an African musicologist. IMS Musicological Brainfood https://www.musicology.org/publications/brain …, 2022

    Experience of Gentrification in the Music Learning of the Pupils of George Handel Music Academy Onitsha, Awka Journal of Research in Music and Arts (AJRMA) 14, 180-193, 2021 nigerianjournalsonline.com

    Healing Through Music and Dancing in Aladura Christianity, International Journal of Arts and Humanities (IJAH) 2020: 9 (2), 244-256,

    From Hornbostel’s African Motion-Oriented Music to Benedict XVI’s Music of the Cosmic Liturgy: The Onitsha Connection (2015–2019), Sacred Music, 147 (4), 45-52.

    Composing for the Liturgy: Basic Requirements, Sacred Music, 2019: 146 (4), 6-18, https://musicasacra.com/journal/archives/

    Im Nigeria, singen alle lateinisch? A Critical Review of the Retention of Spoken Chanted Liturgical Latin in the Nigerian Local Church. Sacred Music, 2019: 146 (1), 9-14. academia.edu; https://musicasacra.com/journal/archives/

    Rudolf Otto's Concept of the Holy vis-à-vis the Functionality of Sacred Music. Sacred Music, 2018: 145 (3), 8-18. researchgate.net; https://musicasacra.com/journal/archives/

    From Indianapolis to Nigeria: A Narrative of the Sacred Music Apostolate in the Onitsha Archdiocese. Sacred Music, 2017: 144, (3). researchgate.net; https://musicasacra.com/journal/archives/

    Joyful noise and violent prayer: Music and charismatic worship performance in Nigerian Catholic communities in Rome, Italy, 2015 search.proquest.com
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  • Keyboard, Composition, Choral Direction, Reading and Writing