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Known around the world for her powerful and adventurous performances, Lily Afshar is fulfilling Andres Segovia抯 prediction that she would become 揳 beautiful celebrity.?She has performed as soloist with numerous orchestras and premiered works to sold out halls in Europe, Asia, North and South America, Central America, Africa and Australia. England抯 Classical Guitar summed up a recent performance with one word: 揝tunning.?The Washington Post labeled her onstage execution as 搃mpeccable.?
Most recently, Lily was honored with the 2000 Orville H. Gibson Award for Best Female Classical Guitarist in Los Angeles. Her other performance awards include the Top Prize in the Guitar Foundation of America Competition, Grand Prize in the Aspen Music Festival Guitar Competition and First Prizes in both the Music Teachers?National Association and the American String Teachers?Association guitar competitions. She also received the Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship Award in Music, and the National Endowment for the Arts Recording Award.
Born in Tehran, Lily was 10 years old when she began learning the guitar. She graduated with a Bachelor of Music and a Master of Music in guitar performance from the Boston Conservatory of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music. At Florida State University, Lily became the first woman in the world to gain a Doctorate of Music in guitar performance. She was selected to play for Maestro Andres Segovia in his master classes held at the University of Southern California.
Currently, Lily serves as head of the University of Memphis guitar program where she received the 2000 Board of Visitors Eminent Faculty Award. Lily regularly conducts master classes in conjunction with her touring. Her latest recording, 揚ossession,?was released in 2002. Her previous recordings of ?4 Caprichos de Goya, Op. 195?by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and 揂 Jug of Wine and Thou?were released on Summit Records. They are available at www.archer-records.com. Her Five Popular Persian Ballads are published by Mel Bay Editions, Inc.
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