In Spring 2017, Nebyu also released “Violin Gems from Black Composers,” an album celebrating African classical composers. Nebyu comes from a Jewish-Hungarian and Ethiopian background and became interested in African classical composers after learning how underrepresented they are in the industry. He hopes that through this album, people will become more interested in classical music and specifically composers of color. “I found very interesting composers of color who composed very good compositions for violin,” Schmieder said. “I like to see places, I like to meet people, and that is what I like to do with music,” Nebyu said.

Source: Ethiopian News October 10, 2017 05:21 UTC