Pianist
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.
Dr. Wael Farouk will be performing the complete solo piano and chamber music of Brahms in a 13-recital series for the 2017-18 season.
Dr. Wael Farouk will be performing the complete solo piano works of Rachmaninoff in five recitals between October 2013 and May 2014 at Ganz Hall. This is the first cycle of Rachmaninoff's solo works to be offered in Chicago. The concert series are dedicated Solomon Mikowsky. Program 1. October 26: The Complete Preludes Op. 23 [...]
Rorianne Schrade of the New York Concerts Review hailed Dr. Farouk's Carnegie Hall solo debut as " Absolutely Masterful.....run – don’t walk – to hear Wael Farouk!" Full Article: June 1, 2013 Just a year ago, I had the pleasure of hearing (and reviewing) Wael Farouk in one of the best renditions of the Rachmaninoff [...]
Dr. Wael Farouk's performance of Rachmaninoff third piano concerto as the winner of the 2012 NYCA concerto competition was described By Rorianne Schrade as "That is how it should be, but only when one hears it does one realize how rare it is. Soulful melodic inflection, growling outbursts, coruscating passagework, and powerful peaks all combined [...]