Lily Afshar
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Awards and recognition
Afshar has been praised for her performances.She won the 2000 Orville H. Gibson Award for Best Female Classical Guitarist. as well as the Tenth, Eleventh, and the Twelfth Annual "Premier Guitarist" awards by the Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee
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Chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc.
Lily was awarded the 2008 Distinguished Teaching Award, the 2000 Eminent Faculty Award, and the 1996 Distinguished Research Award at The University of Memphis
University of Memphis
The University of Memphis is an American public research university located in the Normal Station neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee and is the flagship public research university of the Tennessee Board of Regents system....
. Other awards include the Tennessee
Tennessee
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Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship Award in Music, the National Endowment for the Arts Recording Award, 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 was chosen as "Artistic Ambassador" for the United States Information Agency to Africa.
Lily Afshar was among twelve international guitarists selected to play for Andrés Segovia
Andrés Segovia
Andrés Torres Segovia, 1st Marquis of Salobreña , known as Andrés Segovia, was a virtuoso Spanish classical guitarist from Linares, Jaén, Andalucia, Spain...
in his master classes held at the University of Southern California
University of Southern California
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, at which time Segovia predicted that "she will be a beautiful celebrity". She then appeared in an interview on the NBC
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Nightly News.
Afshar wrote her doctoral thesis "24 Caprichos de Goya, Op. 195, for guitar by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and their relation to Goya's etchings" at the Florida State University
Florida State University
The Florida State University is a space-grant and sea-grant public university located in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a comprehensive doctoral research university with medical programs and significant research activity as determined by the Carnegie Foundation...
.
Discography
- Caprichos de Goya, OP. 195 - CD-Summit RecordsSummit RecordsSummit Records, Inc. is an internationally distributed record label that evolved out of the dynamic large brass ensemble, Summit Brass in the late 1980s...
(1994) - A Jug of Wine and Thou - CD-Summit RecordsSummit RecordsSummit Records, Inc. is an internationally distributed record label that evolved out of the dynamic large brass ensemble, Summit Brass in the late 1980s...
(1999) - PossessionPossession (Lily Afshar album)Possession is the third studio album by well-known classical guitarist Lily Afshar released in 2002 through Archer Records.- Track List :- Reception :...
- CD-Archer Records(2002) - HemispheresHemispheres (Lily Afshar album)Hemispheres is the fourth studio album by well-known classical guitarist Lily Afshar released in 2006 through Archer Records.- Track List :- Reception :...
- CD-Archer Records(2006) - Virtuoso Guitar - DVD Mel Bay Publications, INC. (2009)
See also
- Music of IranMusic of IranThe music of Iran has thousands of years of history, as seen in the archeological documents of Elam, one of the earliest world cultures,which was located in southwestern Iran...
- List of Iranian musicians
- List of famous Iranian women