Classically gifted - BBC

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.