The music of Mohammed Fairouz has been received with performances throughout the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Australia in venues such as New York’s Carnegie Hall, Boston’s Symphony Hall and, the New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall. He has been featured on the New England Conservatory's Composers’ Series, Massachusetts College of Art and Design’s Eventsworks Festival and other festivals. Among the awards that Fairouz has received for his work are the Tourjée alumni award, the Malcolm Morse Memorial Award, the NEC Honors Award and awards from the Merit Funds of the New England and Boston Conservatories. He has composed a substantial body of work including song cycles for Soprano, Mezzo Soprano, Tenor and Baritone; a symphony; a choral mass and a piano sonata in addition to chamber music for winds, percussion, strings and numerous other instrumental and vocal combinations. His song cycles and art songs have been performed literally hundreds of times, being featured on recital programs across the United States. Fairouz is active in the promotion and education of music. He has arranged forums for prominent living composers to discuss their ideas with the young. Among the composers that he has brought to New England is his mentor, Halim El- Dabh, Egypt’s most influential living composer, by facilitating a performance, at Jordan Hall of El-Dabh’s 1958 ballet masterpiece Clytemnestra. As an educator, Fairouz has worked with the New England Conservatory's senior faculty member Malcolm Peyton in teaching topics in 18th, 19th and 20th century tonal composition. Fairouz has been invited to lecture across the country at institutions such as Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia and Boston Conservatory’s Liberal Arts Department and has spoken on topics ranging from post-colonial critical theory to Mahler's Sixth Symphony to Al-Kindi and the Arab golden age’s contribution to European music of the renaissance. Fairouz’s teachers in composition have included Michael Gandolfi, Malcolm Peyton, Pozzi Escot, Halim El-Dabh, Eric Ewazen, Elena Ruehr, John Heiss, Larry Bell and Dana Brayton. |
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