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Upcoming Performances

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July 18, 2027

Prokofiev, Bartok, and Grieg Sonatas

Lancaster,, PA 17604-4575

Lancaster International Piano Festival Lancaster,, PA 17604-4575
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July 19, 2027

Masterclass at the Lancaster International Piano Festival

Lancaster,, PA 17604-4575

Lancaster International Piano Festival Lancaster,, PA 17604-4575
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Upcoming

July 18, 2027

Prokofiev, Bartok, and Grieg Sonatas

Lancaster,, PA 17604-4575

Lancaster International Piano Festival Lancaster,, PA 17604-4575
Tickets Info
July 19, 2027

Masterclass at the Lancaster International Piano Festival

Lancaster,, PA 17604-4575

Lancaster International Piano Festival Lancaster,, PA 17604-4575
Info
View Past Performances

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David Dubal

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

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

Nordwest Zeitung

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

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

New York Concert Review

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

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, 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

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

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

Tremendous music making, the kind that defies and transcends any and all challenges.

Westfalen-Blatt Bielefelder Zeitung

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

Absolute pianistic brilliance. Technically, one can hardly imagine more pearly runs and differentiated articulation and arpeggios.

Al Ahram Weekly

A very special musical genius. – Al Ahram Weekly

A very special musical genius.

Chicago Tribune

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

Wael Farouk is a completionist...a marathon man in music world

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

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.

La Tribune Le Progrès

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

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.

New York Concert Review

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

Here was . . . absolutely masterful playing.

Chicago Tribune

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

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

New York Concert Review

Breathtakingly poetic – New York Concert Review

Breathtakingly poetic

New York Concert Review

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

Mr. Farouk simply lived and breathed the music with the poetry of a born artist.

La Tribune Le Progrès

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

A virtuosity and an expression without equal.

New Jersey Star-Ledger

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

Pianist Wael Farouk is a ‘super-virtuoso.’

Wilhemshavener Zeitung

Completely the virtuoso. – Wilhemshavener Zeitung

Completely the virtuoso.

Westfalen-Blatt Bielefelder Zeitung

Absolute virtuosic mastery. – Westfalen-Blatt Bielefelder Zeitung

Absolute virtuosic mastery.

La Tribune Le Progrès

An audacious and inventive pianist. – La Tribune Le Progrès

An audacious and inventive pianist.

New York Concert Review

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

One of the best renditions of the Rachmaninoff Third Concerto I’d ever heard.

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