Leili afshar biography for kids
Leili afshar biography for kids
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Lily Afshar
Iranian-American classical guitarist (1960–2023)
Musical artist
Lily Afshar (Persian: لیلی افشار; 9 March 1960 – 24 October 2023) was an Iranian-American classical guitarist.
Life and career
Afshar moved to the United States in 1977, to study at the Boston Conservatory of Music, where she got a bachelor's and a master's degree in guitar.[2] In 1989, she got a doctorate from the Florida State University with a thesis on 24 Caprichos de Goya by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco; in 1994 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 2000 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