In this episoide we meet Maya Dunietz, a pianist and  composer from Israel, known for her diverse projects within everything from jazz to classical music and sound art. She will tell us about her work documenting and performing the music of the Ethiopian composer, pianist and nun Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou. 
Emahoy was born in Addis Abeba in 1923. As a child she discovered the music of Beethoven and decided to be a composer.

However, when the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie personally put an end to her plans of continuing her music studies in England, Emahoy withdrew from the world to live in a convent. During her years as a nun she continued to write music without really having much of an audience. And perhaps her work would have remained in obscurity, had her old recordings not been re-released by the record label Buda Music in 2006. 

And some years after that, our guest on this epoisode Maya Dunitz had fallen in love with the music and decided to find its all but forgotten composer. 

Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou passed away in the spring of 2023, 99 years old, after this interview was made.