Pianist
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 [...]
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, [...]
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, [...]
Climbing Beyond Everest: 3 Musical Mountains and persecution. From the Kenosha News. Dedicating the three Rachmaninoff piano concerti in one evening marathon to those who are batteling these 3 Systemic Injustices: Discrimination, oppression. Read the full article Here. Wael Farouk climbing Mount Everest in faith, life and music | Faith & Values | kenoshanewsDownload
By Ati Metwali: Rachmaninoff back-to-back: Inspiring Egyptian pianist Wael Farouk to play at McAninch Arts Centre, USA Ati Metwaly , Friday 12 Mar 2021 Considered to be the Mount Everest piece for piano, US-based Egyptian pianist Wael Farouk will perform with the New Philharmonic conducted by Kirk Muspratt. The concert will be available on-demand starting mid-April [...]
Dr. Wael Farouk will be performing all five Beethoven piano concerti in one evening, to be repeated three days in a row on April 6th, 7th, & 8th. Watch below the full interview with Diana Martinez the Artistic Director of the McAninch Arts Center (MAC) with pianist and professor Steve Havens discussing the upcoming Beethoven [...]
On Saturday March 11th 2017, at 8:00 p.m. Dr. Wael Farouk will be giving the African premier of the monumental piano concerto by Ferruccio Busoni in with the Cairo Symphony Orchestra, becoming the first Egyptian to ever perform this masterpiece.