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Schumann's Complete Piano Sonatas

July 18, 2027 Sunday @ 7:00 pm

Lancaster,, PA 17604-4575

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Lancaster International Piano Festival 620 College Avenue Lancaster, PA 17601
Lancaster,, PA 17604-4575
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Featuring Schumann’s 3 iconic, tempestuous, and truly romantic piano sonatas.

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October 24, 2026

A 2nd Evening With Chopin

Wilmington, DE

Emmanuel Presbyterian Church 1006 Wilson Road
Wilmington, DE 19803
(302) 478-7776
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June 15, 2027

Prokofiev, Bartok, and Grieg Piano Sonatas

Lynchburg, VA

LIBERTY UNIVERSITY LYNCHBURG, VA 1971 University Blvd Lynchburg, VA 24515
Lynchburg, VA 24515
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June 19, 2027

Bartok 2nd Piano Concero

Lynchburg, VA

LIBERTY UNIVERSITY LYNCHBURG, VA 1971 University Blvd Lynchburg, VA 24515
Lynchburg, VA 24515
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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.

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.

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 Jersey Star-Ledger

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

Pianist Wael Farouk is a ‘super-virtuoso.’

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

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

Here was . . . absolutely masterful playing.

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 York Concert Review

Breathtakingly poetic – New York Concert Review

Breathtakingly poetic

Wilhemshavener Zeitung

Completely the virtuoso. – Wilhemshavener Zeitung

Completely the virtuoso.

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.

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.

La Tribune Le Progrès

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

A virtuosity and an expression without equal.

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

La Tribune Le Progrès

An audacious and inventive pianist. – La Tribune Le Progrès

An audacious and inventive pianist.

Al Ahram Weekly

A very special musical genius. – Al Ahram Weekly

A very special musical genius.

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.

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

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.

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.

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