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Artist
Girma Yifrashewa
12+ albums
ClassicalethiopiaEthopianUnseen World
about
Girma, born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on October 15th, 1967, learned to play the kirar, a harp-like traditional Ethiopian instrument, early in his youth. At the age of 16, he learned to play the piano, and earned his performance degree after four years of study at the Yared School of Music in Addis Ababa. With a five-year stipend from the Ethiopian government, he studied music at the State Conservatory of Music in Sofia and received his masters degree. He garnered considerable attention as a concert pianist, and celebrated his largest success in Rome’s Sala Baldini before returning to eastern Africa in 1995. Girma’s artistic emphasis has been on the interpretation of romantic and impressionist repertoires, especially the piano works of Schumann, Schubert and Debussy. He also demonstrates a special relationship with the works of Bach, Mozart and Bethoven. With the aid of scholarships from the British and German governments he studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London in 1997 and at the Felix-Mendelson-Bartholdy University for Music and Theater in Leipzig in 1999. Between 1995 and 2001, Girma worked as a piano instructor at the Yared School of Music in Ethiopia. His special concern today is to spread both Ethiopian and classical music throughout the African continent and beyond. During his free time, he continues to teach piano to students from all age groups. Girma created numerous compositions and wrote several musical arrangements, among them “The Shepherd with th
