Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, the composer and piano-playing nun who died on March 23, 2023 at the age of 99, had an extraordinary life, which included being a trailblazer for women’s equality and walking barefoot for a decade in the isolated mountains of northern Ethiopia. Listening to one of her works can be disconcerting. It sometimes … Continue reading Emahoy Guèbrou, the nun who became Ethiopia’s ‘piano queen’