Pianist
On May 26th, Dr. Farouk will be making his orchestral debut in China with the beloved 3rd piano concerto with one of China's top orchestras, the famed Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra and Maestro Zhu Qiyuan.
Dr. Farouk was named Artist-in-Residence for the LIPF for 2025. The residency will include a solo recital on July 23rd featuring Prokofiev "War Sonatas" No.s 6, 7, and 8. A Masterclass on the July 24th. A performance of the Schumann Piano Concerto, in A minor, Op. 54 with the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, and conductor Michael [...]
I’m pleased to announce the completion of a 4- year project totaling 2649 pages. This new series is a comprehensive set of technical exercises for the advanced pianist. 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 [...]
Dr. Wael Farouk will be performing the Grieg piano concerto on August 23rd with the Daegu Symphony Orchestra and conductor Jin-Hyoun Baek. For more information, please visit: https://www.daeguconcerthouse.or.kr
Pianist Wael Farouk joins New Philharmonic to perform Brahms Concertos Farouk joins New Philharmonic to perform Brahms' Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 at 7:30 p.m. on April 13 and 3 p.m. on April 14 at the MAC. Natalia Dagenhart, Community Contributor Posted Sat, Mar 16, 2024 at 12:15 am CT Wael Farouk with New Philharmonic. (Owner of [...]
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 [...]
I am always asked how I am able to maintain such a large repertoire at my fingertips or perform from memory in a short span of time numerous hours of music. I realize that this question originates from the common misunderstanding that we pianists rely only on muscle memory. The truth is that muscle memory [...]
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, [...]
Gave a lecture on Egyptian piano music as a part of Roosevelt University Chicago College of performing Arts PianoFest last week. I was very moved by the reactions of piano students and professors alike. Here are some of the pieces used in the lecture: Aziz El Shawan piano concerto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PlWea5elXw&t=934s Abu Bakr Khyrat Four Etudes: [...]
The last time the pianist played with the New Philharmonic, in Glen Ellyn, he tackled all five Beethoven concerti in a single concert. Before that, he performed the complete solo piano catalog of Sergei Rachmaninoff and Johannes Brahms in a series of recitals at the schools at which he teaches...That makes Farouk’s concert of Rachmaninoff’s First, Second, [...]