ABOUT
Dr. Wael Farouk has performed on five continents in such venues as the White Hall in St. Petersburg, Schumann's house in Leipzig, and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York, where his solo debut performance in 2013 was described as "absolutely masterful."
Praised as a "formidable and magnificent pianist" by the New York Concert Review, Dr. Farouk has had an extensive performing career. He commands a vast repertoire of more than 70 concertos and 60 solo programs, spanning from Scarlatti to Bolcom and including the complete piano works of J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, Brahms, Debussy, and Rachmaninoff.
Dr. Farouk has appeared as a soloist with such orchestras as the North Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, the Saint-Etienne National Orchestra, the Aademy of the Arts Orchestra, the Manhattan Symphony, and the Cairo Symphony Orchestra for more than 20 concertos, including the Egyptian premieres of Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No.3; Brahms Piano Concerto No.2; Prokofiev Piano Concertos Nos.1, 2, and 3; and the rarely heard monumental 75-minute-long Busoni Piano Concerto, which was also an African premiere. Dr.Farouk has performed with numerous conductors and artists, including Philippe Entremont, IlyaKaler, Patrick Fournillier, Christoph Mueller, Steven Lloyd, Simone Dinnerstein, Kirill Gerstein, andJean-Philippe Collard. In addition to regular performances in the United States and Egypt, he has toured China, Russia, Germany, England, Italy, France, Spain, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Colombia, Mexico, Japan, and the Philippines. In 2004, Dr. Farouk was given the honor of playing on Tchaikowsky's piano—the first pianist to do so since Vladimir Horowitz. More
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