Girma Yifrashewa

Girma Yifrashewa (born October 15, 1967 in Addis Ababa ) is an Ethiopian pianist and composer.

Yifrashewa played the kirar, a traditional Ethiopian stringed instrument, in his childhood. At the age of sixteen he entered the Yared Music School , where he had his first piano lessons. After four years he graduated with a diploma and then studied at the State Conservatory in Sofia with Atanas Kourtev . During this time he made his first appearances as a piano soloist.

The collapse of the Soviet Union and its satellite states initially interrupted his education, later he attended courses at the Royal Academy of Music in London (1997) and the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig (1999). Between 1995 and 2001 he taught at the Yared Music School. In 2002 and 2004 he made concert tours through Africa, he also performed a. a. in Australia (2002), Germany, France, Bulgaria, Italy and Great Britain.

Yifrashewa's repertoire includes compositions by Schubert , Schumann and Debussy , as well as works by Bach , Mozart and Beethoven . His first CD The Shepherd with the Flute (2002) contains compositions by Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Mozart and Schumann, as well as his arrangement of the work of the same name by his compatriot Ashenafi Kebede . He recorded his own compositions on the CDs Meleya Keleme (2003) Elilta (2006).

Web link

• Girma Yifrashewa's homepage

source

• AfriClassical - Girma Yifrashewa