MUSON
Non-profit society operating the MUSON Centre concert venue and classical music school in Lagos, Nigeria.
MUSON, the Musical Society of Nigeria, is a non-profit music institution founded in 1983 and based at the MUSON Centre in Onikan, Lagos. It operates a concert venue (the Agip Recital Hall and Shell Zenith Bank Hall), a classical music school established in 1989 with basic and diploma programmes, and administers Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) examinations in Nigeria.
The society is governed by a Board of Trustees rather than commercial ownership. It runs the MUSON Symphony Orchestra, the MUSON Choir and an annual MUSON Festival of concerts, recitals and masterclasses.
In a directory built mostly of labels and distributors, MUSON is the rare entry whose business is live performance and formal music education, and one of Lagos’s few dedicated classical and orchestral venues.
