Pianist
and Composer Girma Yifrashewa (b. 1967) (Tadias Magazine)
Unseen Worlds 13
Girma Yifrashewa
has a website at:
YouTube: Girma Yifrashewa Plays
in New York June 8, 2013 (4:17)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4JzIpTpRv0#t=118
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4JzIpTpRv0#t=118
By Tadias Staff
Published Saturday, June 28, 2014
Washington, D.C. (Tadias) Ethiopian pianist and composer Girma Yifrashewa will celebrate the release of his new solo piano album, Love and Peace, with a live performance on July 30th at Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club [www.bethesdabluesjazz.com] in Bethesda, Maryland.
Girma's latest album was recorded last year in Brooklyn, New York. Released by the Unseen Worlds record label, the CD features Girma's arrangement of The Shepherd with the Flute - a short reflective and romantic piece originally composed by the late Professor Ashenafi Kebede - as well as his own compositions based on traditional Ethiopian melodies, such as Ambassel, Chewata, Sememen, and his favorite Elilta.
Following his debut New York appearance at the Issue Project Room in Brooklyn on June 8th, 2013, The New York Times described Girma as offering "a rare and fascinating example of aesthetic adaptation and convergence."
By Tadias Staff
By Tadias Staff
Published: Saturday, June 28th, 2014
Washington, D.C. (TADIAS) — Ethiopian pianist and composer Girma Yifrashewa will celebrate the release of his new solo piano album, Love and Peace, with a live performance on July 30th at Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club in Bethesda, Maryland.
Girma’s latest album was recorded last year in Brooklyn, New York. Released by the Unseen Worlds record label, the CD features Girma’s arrangement of The Shepherd with the Flute — a short reflective and romantic piece originally composed by the late Professor Ashenafi Kebede — as well as his own compositions based on traditional Ethiopian melodies, such as Ambassel, Chewata, Sememen, and his favorite Elilta.
Following his debut New York appearance at the Issue Project Room in Brooklyn on June 8th, 2013, The New York Times described Girma as offering “a rare and fascinating example of aesthetic adaptation and convergence.”
- See more at: http://www.tadias.com/06/28/2014/ethiopian-pianist-girma-yifrashewa-at-bethesda-blues-and-jazz-club/#sthash.7vap34J4.dpuf
Published: Saturday, June 28th, 2014
Washington, D.C. (TADIAS) — Ethiopian pianist and composer Girma Yifrashewa will celebrate the release of his new solo piano album, Love and Peace, with a live performance on July 30th at Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club in Bethesda, Maryland.
Girma’s latest album was recorded last year in Brooklyn, New York. Released by the Unseen Worlds record label, the CD features Girma’s arrangement of The Shepherd with the Flute — a short reflective and romantic piece originally composed by the late Professor Ashenafi Kebede — as well as his own compositions based on traditional Ethiopian melodies, such as Ambassel, Chewata, Sememen, and his favorite Elilta.
Following his debut New York appearance at the Issue Project Room in Brooklyn on June 8th, 2013, The New York Times described Girma as offering “a rare and fascinating example of aesthetic adaptation and convergence.”
- See more at: http://www.tadias.com/06/28/2014/ethiopian-pianist-girma-yifrashewa-at-bethesda-blues-and-jazz-club/#sthash.7vap34J4.dpuf
Pianist
and Composer Girma Yifrashewa (Courtesy photo) - See more at:
http://www.tadias.com/06/28/2014/ethiopian-pianist-girma-yifrashewa-at-bethesda-blues-and-jazz-club/#sthash.7vap34J4.dpuf
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