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Hunter International Music Festival July 24- August 7th

Hunter International Music Festival

July 24, 2022 Sunday @ 9:00 am

Hunter,, New York, USA

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Hunter International Music Festival 7971 Main St
Hunter,, New York 12442
USA
(917) 589-8736
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(917) 589-8736
Website:
huntermusicfestival.com/index.html

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Upcoming

March 22, 2026

The Piano Amigos

New York, NY, United States

Greenfield Hall Manhattan School of Music, 130 Claremont Avenue
New York, NY 10027
United States
212-749-2802

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

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April 20, 2026

Carlos Moseley Series

Spartanburg, SC, United States

Converse College 580 E Main Street
Spartanburg, SC 29302
United States
864.596.9000

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

Lancaster International Piano Festival Lancaster,, PA 17604-4575
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David Dubal

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

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

New York Concert Review

Breathtakingly poetic – New York Concert Review

Breathtakingly poetic

New York Concert Review

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

Tremendous music making, the kind that defies and transcends any and all challenges.

New York Concert Review

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

Mr. Farouk simply lived and breathed the music with the poetry of a born artist.

New York Concert Review

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

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.

Chicago Tribune

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

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

New Jersey Star-Ledger

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

Pianist Wael Farouk is a ‘super-virtuoso.’

La Tribune Le Progrès

An audacious and inventive pianist. – La Tribune Le Progrès

An audacious and inventive pianist.

New York Concert Review

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

Here was . . . absolutely masterful playing.

Nordwest Zeitung

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

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

Westfalen-Blatt Bielefelder Zeitung

Absolute virtuosic mastery. – Westfalen-Blatt Bielefelder Zeitung

Absolute virtuosic mastery.

New York Concert Review

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

One of the best renditions of the Rachmaninoff Third Concerto I’d ever heard.

La Tribune Le Progrès

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

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.

Chicago Tribune

Wael Farouk is a completionist… a marathon man in music world -Chicago Tribune

Wael Farouk is a completionist...a marathon man in music world

Wilhemshavener Zeitung

Completely the virtuoso. – Wilhemshavener Zeitung

Completely the virtuoso.

Al Ahram Weekly

A very special musical genius. – Al Ahram Weekly

A very special musical genius.

New York Concert Review

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 is, without a doubt, a formidable and magnificent pianist . . . Of the most interesting and individualistic I have heard in a long time.

La Tribune Le Progrès

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

A virtuosity and an expression without equal.

Westfalen-Blatt Bielefelder Zeitung

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

Absolute pianistic brilliance. Technically, one can hardly imagine more pearly runs and differentiated articulation and arpeggios.

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

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.

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