Girma Yifrashewa Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Girma Yifrashewa is a pianist and composer who works to promote Ethiopian and Classical music throughout the [African] continent and beyond. Initially trained on the kirar, an Ethiopian harp, Yifrashewa discovered the piano while in music school in Addis Ababa and pursued formal studies at the Sofia State Conservatory of Music in Bulgaria, graduating with a masters degree in piano in 1991. He returned to Ethiopia in 1995 and taught piano at the Yared School of Music until 2001. In 2014, he released “Love & Peace,” featuring five original compositions for solo piano. Yifrashewa has held many concerts both in Ethiopia and abroad, not only on his international tours (solo tour and with Ethiopian vocalists), but also on separate invitations sent to him (Egypt, Djibouti, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Uganda, Mauritius, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, South Africa, Seychelles, Zambia, Malawi, Bulgaria, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Australia, USA). He returned to the United States in the Summer of 2013 for concerts with Issue Project Room in Brooklyn and Non Sequitur in Seattle, thanks in part to support from Unseen Worlds Records, which garnered Yifrashewa a positive review from The New York Times. ***Content for the Daily Showcase social media series is obtained from information found online and is presented for educational and informational purposes only. Please let us know if you would like to delete, edit, correct or provide an attribution to a post by emailing us at [email protected]. We also encourage you to contact us at this same email address to inform us of other outstanding Black classical instrumentalists and/or composers, conductors and administrators whom you recommend we feature in the Daily Showcase.***