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Complete Solo Piano and Chamber Music of Brahms

on February 10, 2017February 1, 2022 By Wael Farouk

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.

Rachmaninoff Complete Solo Piano Works

on September 21, 2013February 11, 2022 By Wael Farouk

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 [...]

Carnegie Hall Solo Recital Debut Review

on June 13, 2013February 11, 2022 By Wael Farouk

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 [...]

NYCA Concerto Competition Winner Review

on May 19, 2012February 1, 2022 By Wael Farouk

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 [...]

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, U. S.

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June 2, 2025

Wael Farouk Piano Academy WFPA

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Category: Press Releases

Complete Solo Piano and Chamber Music of Brahms

Rachmaninoff Complete Solo Piano Works

Carnegie Hall Solo Recital Debut Review

NYCA Concerto Competition Winner Review

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

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

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

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

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

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

An audacious and inventive pianist. – La Tribune Le Progrès

A very special musical genius. – Al Ahram Weekly

Completely the virtuoso. – Wilhemshavener Zeitung

Absolute virtuosic mastery. – Westfalen-Blatt Bielefelder Zeitung

Breathtakingly poetic – 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

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

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

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

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

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

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