professional double bassist chi—chi nwanoku created the chineke!champion diversity and change in classical music. and the coronavirus pandemic and the lockdown has meant real personal pain. it made a real difference to her and her musicians. chi—chi, i would like to start by asking you about that, the impact of the lockdown. gosh, it had devastating impact, to be honest, and at a variety of levels. depending on how established you are and how much you depend on living from one day to the next on your livelihood or whether you are still a full—time student, for example. it has been fairly devastating, and notjust devastating inasmuch as how it hits the pocket butjust the sheer nature of our work and what it is that drives us to want to be involved in the classical music industry is the whole aspect of what we do and that is performing to an audience. here i am in my music room and i can play for hours in here and, of course, it is nice to a certain degree, but i need to have my colleagues around me and just hearing that little clip of the last conce