Biography
AYODEJI AJAYI
Music Director, Theatre Director, Events Producer, Creative Director & Music Composer
AYO AJAYI is a theatre producer and director, a music maestro and a pioneer music director in the Nigerian theatre industry, who, to date, has produced and directed well over 100 Musicals, either as a collaboration with other producers and clients or a stand alone Producer.
Ayo is also a Pianist, Organist, Composer, and Choral Conductor.
Ayo Ajayi is the Creative Director of Declassical Arts & Entertainment, a top production company in Nigeria which has produced phenomenal musical theatre performances like OMG the Musical, Legends the Musical, The Future is Here, Fela; Arrest the Music, Osamede, to mention but a few. Ayo is the convener of Nigerian Art Music Project, a not for profit group committed to the spread of Nigerian Art Music, the Music Director of Voices & Chords and Declassical Voices and Orchestra.
His musical talent was honed from a very early age with lessons from his father before been nurtured at the CMS Grammar School where he eventually became the School Choral director and pianist. His debut was at the age of seven when He performed at the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) conference concert at the Sheraton Hotels in Abuja with the group Rising Star led by Tosin Adejumo and he has since then been involved in several educational and performance tours both in and outside the country.