(Photo courtesy ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn)
Girma Yifrashewa has a website at: http://www.GirmaYifrashewa.com and is featured at AfriClassical.com AfriClassical.blogspot.com announced his U.S. Tour on March 25, 2013
Events News
Published: Friday, May 3rd, 2013
New York (TADIAS) – Ethiopian classical pianist and
composer Girma Yifrashewa is scheduled to perform at Issue Project Room
in Brooklyn on June 8th.
“A highly accomplished performer of the romantic repertoire,
Yifrashewa has chosen to remain in Ethiopia— where classical music is
far from a dominant practice— forging a classical tradition for his own
country,” organizers said in a press release. “Using traditional tunes
as a foundation, Yifrashewa’s compositions combine the ecstasy of
Ethiopian harmony with the grandeur of virtuoso piano technique into an
effortlessly enjoyable, heady mixture. In this solo piano concert,
Yifrashewa performs works by Chopin, Schumann, Debussy, and Mozart, as
well as a set of his own Ethiopian informed compositions.”
Girma, who was born in Addis Ababa in 1967, is a graduate of the
Yared School of Music and the Sofia State Conservatory of Music in
Bulgaria.
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