Abdel Rahman El Bacha
Abdel Rahman El Bacha (
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Biography
El Bacha[2] was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1958 to a family of musicians - his father was a well-known composer and his mother was a famous singer. [1]. He remarked in an interview that his mother possessed a sharp ear for music without the ability to read it in written form, and that this taught him the importance of learning music by ear.
He began his piano schooling in 1967 at the age of nine with Zvart Sarkissian (a pupil of Marguerite Long and Jacques Février). At the age of ten, he gave his first concert with an orchestra.
He was offered scholarships in
At the age of nineteen, in June 1978, El Bacha won the
In 1983, he made his first recording for the label
He was recently awarded the Médaille de l’Ordre du Mérite by the President of the
El Bacha has had Franco-Lebanese
References
- Artist info at naxos.com Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
- Biography at lebaneselobby.org
- Biography at the Enescu Festival
- Biography and interview at pianobleu.com
- ^ "Naxos". Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2007-07-31.
- ISBN 978 2 3505 5192 0.