The Piano Amigos

Featuring:
RACHMANINOFF Suite No. 2, Op. 17
AMR OKBA One Coin and Two Sides (World Premiere)
ARENSKY Suite No. 1 for Two Pianos, Op. 15
ROSSINI (arr. D. Krug) The Barber of Seville Fantasie for piano six hands

March 22, 2026 Sunday @ 2:00 pm

New York, NY, United States

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Phone:: 212-749-2802

Website:: msmnyc.edu

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March 22, 2026

The Piano Amigos

New York, NY, United States

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April 20, 2026

Carlos Moseley Series

Spartanburg, SC, United States

An all Liszt Recital, Featuring the B minor Sonata, Don Juan Fantasy, Norma Fantasy, and Tannhauser Overture.

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July 18, 2027

Prokofiev, Bartok, and Grieg Sonatas

Lancaster,, PA 17604-4575

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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

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

Completely the virtuoso. – Wilhemshavener Zeitung

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

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

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

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

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

Breathtakingly poetic – New York Concert Review

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

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

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

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

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

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

A very special musical genius. – Al Ahram Weekly