Mohamed Saleh was born in Cairo in 1968. The Soviet government granted him a scholarship for the Rimsky- Korsakov State Conservatoire, St. Petersburg, where he studied piano with V.A. Kalmikov, accompaniment with I.V.Vasilyeva and chamber music with E.V. Simishina . He graduated in 1996 and went on to study composition for two years with Professor A.D. Mnatsakanian.
Mohamed Saleh obtained his MA from the St. Petersburg State Conservatoire in piano performance. In 1996-97 he was a teaching assistant at the University of Connecticut, US, where he studied piano with Prof . Neal Larrabee, chamber music with prof. Mary Lou Rylands and performed the Khatchaturian Piano Concerto with the University Orchestra there.
In 1998 he was appointed pianist of the Cairo Symphony Orchestra. In the past seasons he has performed a substantial number of chamber music recitals with different groups of soloists from the Cairo Symphony Orchestra at the Small Hall of the Cairo Opera House. He played duos, trios, quartets and quintets by Brahms, Schumann, Shostakovich and other composers. In 1999, he again performed the Khachaturian Piano Concerto, this time with the Cairo Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jon Robertson ( USA). In 2001, he performed the Grieg Piano Concerto with the orchestra conducted by Piotr Kwiatkowski ( Poland ). He also performed for Russian and Egyptian Television companies and premiered a piece by D.A. Tolstoy at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.
(This biography is taken from the libretto distributed on the occasion of the 1st Alexandrina Music Biennale 2009).
To complement your knowledge of the artist, you can click here to read an interview that appeared in the Daily News Egypt.
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