• Often referred to as "the piano queen", she was ordained as a nun aged 21 and was among Ethiopia's first classical pianists.
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 ...
Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, the composer and piano-playing nun who died this week at the age of 99, had an extraordinary life, which included being a trailblazer for women's equality and walking ...
Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, a classically trained musician who once abandoned music for a hermit-like life as nun in her native Ethiopia and later returned to the piano with a genre-defying blend of ...
Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, the composer and piano-playing nun who died this week at the age of 99, had an extraordinary life, which included being a trailblazer for women's equality and walking ...
The piano as a music type or genre has a relatively long history in Ethiopia. If we take the first Ethiopian female pianist, Emahoy Tsegue-Mariam Gebrou, as a point of reference, we realize that she ...
Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, the composer and piano-playing nun who died this week at the age of 99, had an extraordinary life, which included being a trailblazer for women's equality and walking ...