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 ...

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 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, a classically trained musician who once abandoned music for a hermit-like life as a nun in her native Ethiopia and later returned to the piano with a genre-defying blend ...

As the Ethiopian pianist Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou approached the age of 100, fans and music critics from the US to Ethiopia, Israel to Europe have been eagerly rediscovering her work. But the ...

• Often referred to as "the piano queen", she was ordained as a nun aged 21 and was among Ethiopia's first classical pianists.