|
 Gold
Medalist and winner of the Chamber Music prize at the Seventh Van
Cliburn International Piano Competition, José Feghali has been
Artist-in-Residence at TCU’s
School
of
Music
since 1990. He has appeared in over 1000 performances worldwide,
including appearances with such orchestras as the Berlin Philharmonic,
Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Gewandhaus of
Leipzig, Royal Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, London Symphony,
Birmingham Symphony, National Symphony of Spain, Warsaw Philharmonic,
and the
Shanghai
and
Beijing
symphonies. In the USA, he has appeared in all the major cities and in
virtually every state of the nation, including performances with the
orchestras of Chicago, St. Louis, Dallas, Houston, Detroit, Atlanta,
Baltimore, Pittsburgh and the National Symphony, and has worked with
many eminent conductors including Kurt Masur, Christoph Eschenbach, Yuri
Temirkanov and Leonard Slatkin. Recital appearances include performances
at Carnegie Hall, Chicago Orchestra Hall,
Kennedy
Center
, Ambassador Auditorium, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Wigmore Hall, Bass Hall
and the
Meyerson
Symphony
Center
. Solo and concerto performances have taken him to Canada, Mexico,
United Kingdom, France, Holland, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Germany,
Italy, Switzerland, Poland, Bulgaria, Turkey, China, Singapore,
Hong-Kong and several countries in
Latin America
.
Equally
active as a recitalist, José has appeared on such prestigious stages as
Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Ambassador Auditorium and Chicago’s
Orchestra Hall. He has also performed in the major concert halls of the
United Kingdom, Germany, Holland, Spain, Portugal, Eastern Europe,
Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore and Latin America. An avid chamber
musician, he has participated in many chamber festivals in the
US
and abroad, as well as in collaboration with James Galway, Truls Mørk,
Antonio Meneses,
Alisa Weilerstein
, Edgar Meyer, David Shifrin, Olivier Charlier, Régis Pasquier, Tokyo
String quartet and John Vickers. He has been a judge at several
international piano competitions, gives regular masterclasses and is a
member of the faculty at both the PianoTexas and Mimir Chamber Music
Festivals.
His
recordings are available on the
Naxos
, Koss and VAI labels. José has worked as producer, recording and
mastering engineer in over 50 commercial and non-commercial recording
projects, and was the remastering engineer for the Van Cliburn
Competition’s Retrospective series of CDs on the VAI label. New CDs,
including solo and chamber recitals, will be released next season.
José
is Coordinator of Internet Technologies for TCU’s
School
of
Music
, where he was awarded the Mike Ferrari Award for his work with
Internet2 and video conferencing and streaming technology. He was
invited to give presentations at the annual Performing Arts conferences
of both Internet2 and the Trans-European Research and Education
Networking Association (TERENA) on the
application of Microsoft Research’s ConferenceXP software in music and
arts education. While investigating the program’s capabilities for
possible use in long-distance music events, he discovered and corrected
a flaw in the software’s code that had until then made it incapable of
utilizing high fidelity sound in real-time conferencing applications.
|