| 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 Kennedy Center’s Festival of Contemporary Music, the New England Conservatory's Composers’ Series, Massachusetts College of Art and Design’ Eventsworks Festival and other festivals. Among the awards that Fairouz has received for his work are the Tourjee alumni award, the Malcolm Morse Memorial Award, the NEC Honors Award, the New England Conservatory Contemporary Ensemble Prize and awards from the Merit Funds of the New England and Boston Conservatories. In 2008, he was honored with a national citation from the embassy of the United Arab Emirates in Washington D.C. for outstanding achievement in artistry and scholarship. 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. Fairouz’s song cycle, Bonsai Journal is slated to be the title piece of the Ibis Camerata’s upcoming CD release on Albany Records. It is also due for release on Centaur disks in the fall of 2009 with other piano, vocal and chamber music by Fairouz. His song cycles and art songs have been performed hundreds of times, being featured on recital programs across the United States. Fairouz is active in the promotion and education of music. As the director of compositional activities of New York’s Mimesis Ensemble he has engaged, programmed and worked with composers as diverse as Martin Bresnick, Gunther Schuller, Tobias Picker, Yehudi Wyner, Milton Babbitt, Halim El-Dabh, Lee Hyla and John Heiss among others. He has also 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 been invited to lecture across the country at institutions such as Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, University of Western Michigan and Boston Conservatory’s Liberal Arts Department speaking on topics that range 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 John Heiss, Michael Gandolfi, Malcolm Peyton, Gunther Schuller and Halim El-Dabh, |
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