Touch the screen or click to continue...
Checking your browser...
conrole.pages.dev

Leili afshar biography of christopher

          Lily Afshar, who taught classical guitar at the University of Memphis for more than three decades and earned international acclaim, passed away Tuesday in Iran.

        1. The extraordinary Iranian guitarist Lily Afshar emigrated to the United States two years before the revolution that deposed the Shah of Iran.
        2. Lily Afshar was an Iranian-American classical guitarist.
        3. Born in Iran to a musical family, she has drawn from Persian and Azerbaijani folk music traditions to create arrangements of works for the.
        4. Lily Afshar is an Iranian-born, U.S.-based classical guitarist.

          5. Lily Afshar was an Iranian-American classical guitarist..

          Lily Afshar

          Iranian-American classical guitarist (–)

          Musical artist

          Lily Afshar (Persian: لیلی افشار; 9 March – 24 October ) was an Iranian-American classical guitarist.

          Life and career

          Afshar moved to the United States in , to study at the Boston Conservatory of Music, where she got a bachelor's and a master's degree in guitar.[2] In , she got a doctorate from the Florida State University with a thesis on 24 Caprichos de Goya by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco; in she was the first musician to record the Castelnuovo-Tedesco's guitar composition.[3] She was also the first woman in the world to get a doctorate in classical guitar.[4][5][6]

          Afshar won the Orville H.

          Gibson Award for Best Female Classical Guitarist,[4] as well as three annual "Premier Guitarist" awards by the Memphis Chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences.[7] Afshar was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award, the