“There is no place in Ethiopia where Girma could do this!” an immigrant from Addis Ababa explained during Sunday night’s intermission at Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club. “People there don’t pay ...

When most folks think of Ethiopian music they hear the slithering soul-funk sounds created by artists like Mahmoud Ahmed or Tilahun Gessesse—killer singers who delivered Amharic-language jams with ...

Addis Ababa — He professes to love music, that it has made him. In more ways than one, Girma Yifrashewa, the 34-year-old pianist has achieved what no one in this country has in his vocation. In three ...

Getting a piano to a remote school in Africa was no easy task, but concert pianist Girma Yifrashewa knows its value Girma Yifrashewa will never forget the exhilaration of receiving his own piano. It ...

It's a great pleasure to join you for a wonderful night of music. Let me start by saying how pleased and grateful the United States Embassy is to be side-by-side with three wonderful co-sponsors in ...

Renowned Ethiopian musician Girma Yifrashewa's album entitled Love and Peace came in 23rd on the US billboard classical music charts following a concert at Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club, ...

This is the story of an internationally acclaimed classical pianist from Africa whose career was made possible by the timely intervention of the Irish Christian Brothers in Rome. It is such stuff as ...

The transformative power of music was recently illustrated when the first notes were played on a piano at a girls’ boarding school in rural Ethiopia. This writer was invited to the Pharo School in ...

To celebrate this year’s International Francophone Day, the French embassy has gone an extra mile by hauling in Girma Yifrashewa, one of the finest pianist on the Africa continent, but from a very ...

The transformative power of music was recently illustrated when the first notes were played on a piano at a girls’ boarding school in rural Ethiopia. “I have performed at venues around the world, but ...