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This new series is a comprehensive set of technical exercises full of new symbols for movements of the hands, wrists, and arms as well as breathing regulation and eye coordination. Each volume references related repertoire and includes many tools that provide professional pianists with the necessary technical apparatus to both master the most challenging repertoire and to proactively achieve and sustain pianistic health. These volumes are also a valuable and practical source for composers writing for the piano; they provide a canvas of pianistic patterns and related references.

Click a selection to purchase:

**The Complete Pianist, Advanced Virtuoso Technical Exercises (Complete 5-Volume Bundle): $130**

**The Complete Pianist (Volume 1: For 1-5 Fingers): $30**

**The Complete Pianist (Volume 2: For Double Notes): $30**

**The Complete Pianist (Volume 3: For Octaves and Chords):$30**

**The Complete Pianist (Volume 4: For Arpeggios and Broken Intervals): $30**

The Complete Pianist (Volume 5: For the Left Hand): $30

View book samples below:

RUSSIAN PORTRAITS (2 ALBUMS DIGITAL DOWNLOAD): $21

David Dubal described his 2013 debut solo album Russian Portraits (Carlock Records) as “piano playing that brings chills to the flesh, performed with a rare virtuoso technique.”

Upcoming

October 19, 2024

An Evening with Chopin (Free Event)

Wilmington, DE

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February 25, 2025

Solo Recital Miller Theater, Columbia University

New York, NY

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March 22, 2025

Prokofiev Complete Piano Sonatas (Recital 1/3)

Washington, DC, Washington, DC, U. S.

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RUSSIAN PORTRAITS (2 ALBUMS DIGITAL DOWNLOAD): $21

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

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

An audacious and inventive pianist. – La Tribune Le Progrès

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

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

A very special musical genius. – Al Ahram Weekly

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

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

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

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

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

Completely the virtuoso. – Wilhemshavener Zeitung

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

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

Breathtakingly poetic – New York Concert Review

Absolute virtuosic mastery. – Westfalen-Blatt Bielefelder Zeitung