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JOHN KAMEEL FARAH (bio)
John Kameel Farah is a Toronto–based composer, pianist, electronic
musician and visual artist. He studied composition and piano
performance at the University of Toronto, where he received the Glenn
Gould Composition Award twice during his studies. In 1999 he
studied privately with Terry Riley in California, and later at the
Arabic Music Retreat in Hartford. In 1998, he performed the complete
solo piano works of Arnold Schoenberg in Toronto. Toronto’s NOW
Magazine named
his as Best Pianist 2006.
Farah now focuses
primarily on his own creative hybrid of improvisation, composition and
electronic music. Simultaneously using piano, synthesizer, computer,
and at times harpsichord, his solo performances exist somewhere between
the concert hall and an experimental DJ set at a dance club, mixing
forays into free improvisation, jazz, electro–acoustics, middle-eastern
modes, and ambient minimalism with genres of Electronica such as Drum
& Bass and Techno. He has also presented many
of his own compositions both for solo piano as well as for string
quartet, percussion groups, wind ensembles and electronic arrangements
and remains active as a solo pianist.
Farah performs regularly in Toronto, and has performed his music at
festivals and venues across Europe, USA, Canada, the Middle–East, South
Korea and Mexico. In 1999 and 2002, he visited the Edward Said National
Conservatory in the West Bank, giving performances and masterclasses in
Ramallah, East Jerusalem and Bethlehem.
His upcoming CD "Unfolding" will be released on Dross:tik Records this July.
In an effort to expand his musical palette, his music draws upon an
interest in history, mythology and painting.
As a visual artist, his ink drawings have been presented at solo and
group
exhibitions, most recently being the Visual-Artist-In-Residence
at the Trane Studio jazz club in Toronto.
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