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Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3

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My Perfect Hands: Lecture at the American Association of Hand Surgery 2 years ago - A few weeks into 2022, I did something I hadn't ever planned to do. I gave a lecture to a ballroom full of hand surgeons about what makes hands perfect. In the spring of 2021, I was approached by Dr. Nash Naam, the President of the American Association of Hand Surgery, after he had read… Continue Reading

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Dr. Wael Farouk has performed on five continents in such venues as the White Hall in St. Petersburg, Schumann’s house in Leipzig, and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York, where his solo debut performance in 2013 was described as “absolutely masterful.”

Praised as a “formidable and magnificent pianist” by the New York Concert Review, Dr. Farouk has had an extensive performing career. He commands a vast repertoire of more than 70 concertos and 60 solo programs, spanning from Scarlatti to Bolcom and including the complete piano works of J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, and Rachmaninoff, 10 solo recitals of Franz Liszt’s music, as well as the complete piano sonatas of Schubert, Scriabin, and Prokofiev.

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Dr. Farouk Joins the Piano Faculty of the Manhattan School of Music in New York 2 years ago - Starting in the Fall of 2022, Dr. Farouk will join the college piano faculty of the Manhattan School of Music in New York City. An alumnus of the Manhattan School of Music, Dr. Farouk earned the Professional Studies degree there in 2006-2007 on a full scholarship. While there, he won the conservatory's Eisenberg-Fried Concerto Competition,… Continue Reading

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Mr. Farouk simply lived and breathed the music with the poetry of a born artist. – New York Concert Review

Pianist Wael Farouk is a ‘super-virtuoso.’ – New Jersey Star-Ledger

Wael Farouk played the highly virtuoso, technically challenging solo part with absolute mastery. – Nordwest Zeitung

Here is piano playing that brings chills to the flesh, performed with a rare virtuoso technique. – David Dubal

Absolute pianistic brilliance. Technically, one can hardly imagine more pearly runs and differentiated articulation and arpeggios. – Westfalen-Blatt Bielefelder Zeitung

Mr. Farouk daringly showed his mastery and discipline over all sorts of technical hurdles and was even more impressive in making a breathtakingly poetic, singing tone. – New York Concert Review

Wael Farouk is a completionist… a marathon man in music world -Chicago Tribune

A very special musical genius. – Al Ahram Weekly

Absolute virtuosic mastery. – Westfalen-Blatt Bielefelder Zeitung

An audacious and inventive pianist. – La Tribune Le Progrès

Wael Farouk is, without a doubt, a formidable and magnificent pianist . . . Of the most interesting and individualistic I have heard in a long time. – New York Concert Review

Here was . . . absolutely masterful playing. – New York Concert Review

Tremendous music making, the kind that defies and transcends any and all challenges. – New York Concert Review

One of the best renditions of the Rachmaninoff Third Concerto I’d ever heard. – New York Concert Review

Breathtakingly poetic – New York Concert Review

A virtuosity and an expression without equal. – La Tribune Le Progrès

With his history-making concert, pianist Wael Farouk speaks to social inequities and is ready to reach higher. – Chicago Tribune

The way Mr. Farouk sailed through the piece, as if daydreaming out loud, made masses of notes seem merely incidental. That is how it should be, but only when one hears it does one realize how rare it is. – New York Concert Review

Completely the virtuoso. – Wilhemshavener Zeitung

Wael Farouk imposed from the first chords of Bach’s Partita in C Minor a gravity of tone, a height of view that belongs only to the greatest. – La Tribune Le Progrès