Abdel Rahman El Bacha

Born in Beirut into a family of musicians, Abdel Rahman El Bacha began studying piano in 1967 with Zvart Sarkissian, a student of Marguerite Long and Jacques Février. At 10, he gives his first concert with orchestra. In 1973, Claudio Arrau predicted a great career and in 1974, France, the Soviet Union and England offered him a scholarship. He chooses France by cultural affinity and enters the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, in the class of Pierre Sancan, where he gets four First Prizes (piano, chamber music, harmony and counterpoint).

Since the brilliant revelation of his talent at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Belgium at the age of 19 that he won unanimously, he has performed in the most prestigious concert halls in Europe and all around the world.

From the Salzburg Mozarteum to the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, from the Amsterdam Concertgebouw to the Herkulessaal in Munich, he plays with prestigious ensembles such as the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Orchestre National de Belgique, the Gulbenkian Orchestra Lisbon, the NHK Tokyo, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande ... under the baton of important conductors. He has recently appeared at the Philharmonie de Paris, at La Cité de la Musique in Paris, at the Grand Théâtre de Provence, in the United States with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, at the Salle Bourgie in Montreal, at the Musashino Hall in Tokyo...

In 2011, he began collaborating with Mirare CD label by recording some Prokofiev’s solo piano works followed in 2013 by a new Beethoven’s Complete 32 Piano Sonatas warmly acclaimed by the international critic. In 2018 has been released, still for Mirare, the recording of his own compositions for solo piano, works now edited by Éditions Delatour.