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In a basement studio here in Bush House sits a magnificent grand piano, it doesn't feature regularly on Network Africa, but this week Ethiopian concert pianist Girma Yifrashewa came to visit. He is in the UK to perform a series of concerts at London's Guildhall School of Music. Girma started his career at the Yared School of Music in Addis Ababa and continued his musical education in London, Sofia and Leipzig. He has performed all over the world, enchanting audiences in Europe, Australia and Africa. As a composer, Girma loves making links with the classical European tradition and African melodies and his work is performed by musicians in Germany, Bulgaria as well as home in Ethiopia. Shen Liknaitzky heard him play and spoke to him about his life as a concert pianist. | LOCAL LINKS  Memories of Manhattan12 December, 2006 | News Scream out loud17 November, 2006 | News Desert rebel30 October, 2006 | News New Prince of Afrobeat07 September, 2006 | News 'Tuku' - in a class of his own21 August, 2006 | News Cesaria Evora drinks the honey12 July, 2006 | News Africa singing out26 June, 2006 | News EXTERNAL LINKS The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites | |||||||||||||
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