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Prokofiev, Bartok, and Grieg Sonatas

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Nanga Lin, MM ’26 4 months ago - "Dr. Farouk is a supportive mentor and a warm scholar. I have gained deep insight into cultivating a heart full of curiosity across all aspects of art while developing performance skills. In my short time studying with Dr. Farouk, I have been encouraged to explore composers and pieces I was unfamiliar with before. I have… 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 to offer 8 historic recitals in the 2024-25 season. 10 months ago - Looking forward to performing 8 different recital programs this year featuring the complete sonatas of Schumann, Chopin, Scriabin, and Prokofiev. As well as the complete Chopin Ballades, Scherzi and Impromptus. It is very special for me to perform all 10 Scriabin sonatas (as well as his B minor fantasy) as a tribute to Scriabin’s 110th… Continue Reading

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Completely the virtuoso. – Wilhemshavener Zeitung

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

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

A very special musical genius. – Al Ahram Weekly

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

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

Breathtakingly poetic – New York Concert Review

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

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

An audacious and inventive pianist. – La Tribune Le Progrès

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

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

Absolute virtuosic mastery. – Westfalen-Blatt Bielefelder Zeitung

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

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

A virtuosity and an expression without equal. – 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

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