Girma yifrashewa biography of michael

  • Girma Yifrashewa (born ) is an Ethiopian classical pianist and composer.
  • Girma Yifrashewa, an Ethiopian pianist and composer, played classical fare and his own works at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn.
  • Girma Yifrashewa (born in Addis Ababa in ) is an Ethiopian pianist and composer.

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    Remarks by US Ambassador to Ethiopia Michael Raynor at Girma Yifrashe’s “Bridging Cultures Concert,” Addis Abba

    January 30,

    …What makes Girma such a compelling artist is not only that he’s a virtuoso pianist, but that he puts his virtuosity to the service of blending classical and Ethiopian music, and to building bridges between people through shared and transcendent musical experiences. Girma has performed and promoted Ethiopian and classical music, including his own compositions, throughout the African continent and worldwide, with recent tours to Egypt, Mozambique, South Africa, Italy, Germany, and the United States.

    Tonight we’re thrilled that he’s here with all of us, in our shared home of Addis Ababa, to perform a schema called “Bridging Cultures.” Girma will not only feature his own compositions this evening, but will generously share the spotlight with an important but somewhat forgotten American composer, whose work is undergoing a bit of a rediscovery thank

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    QUESTIONNAIRE I: JULIA WOLFE / GIRMA YIFRASHEWA / JEPPE ZEEBERG

    textura is delighted to inaugurate its Questionnaire feature with mini-profiles of composer Julia Wolfe and pianists Girma Yifrashewa and Jeppe Zeeberg. Reviews of their latest albums—Wolfe's Steel Hammer, Yifrashewa's Love & Peace, and Zeeberg's It's The Most Basic Thing You Can Do On A Boat—also can be found in this month's issue.

    JULIA WOLFE

    A co-founder and co-artistic director of New York's Bang on a Can, Julia Wolfe has produced an impressive array of works for many configurations, including string quartet, string orchestra, and, of course, the Bang on a Can All-Stars. As a composer, Wolfe, like her fellow Bang on a Can co-founders David Lang and Michael Gordon, omnivorously draws upon folk, classical, pop, and rock, and in doing so overthrows the quaint notion of strict genre boundaries. Representative of Wolfe's output are the raucous funk piece Lick, the string orchestra setting Cruel

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    Bridging cultures through music

    Girma Yifrashewa, a classical pianist, performed at skylight hotel his newest album on January Girma asserted that art has the ability to bridge cultures especially music. “Even if you don’t speak the language, music can help bridge cultures. Music is a universal language that can bridge cultures”. Girma said that this has been on his agenda for about two years now.

    Currently, the US Embassy has been holding a week of art celebrations. A group of American artists, DJs, dancers, and a graffiti artist have been doing a series of workshops at Yared School of Music, which is under the College of Performing and Visual Arts at Addis Ababa University.

    Girma narrated how he came to do this project during the press conference. Grima said: “A visual artist from Pennsylvania University contacted me. The artist wanted me to be part of the project and to promote Louis Moreau Gottschalk music in a bigger art exhibition, and he was happy to include me and do th