YASSER EL SERAFI

First Concert Master of the Cairo Symphony Orchestra, Yasser El Serafi was born in Alexandria in 1969. At the age of six he started to play the violin at the Alexandria Conservatoire with Renato Borghese and Lisette Meguerditchian and won the first prize in the national Strings Competition in 1986.

In 1988,he received a scholarship from the French government to continue his musical studies in Paris. He was awarded four gold medals in violin, chamber music, conducting,  and theory of music, as well as the excellence degree in violin and chamber music from the Conservatoire National de Rueil-Malmaison and the Conservatoire National de Paris.

He performed as a soloist with the Cairo Symphony Orchestra in 1991 and 1993 at the anniversary of the Cairo Opera House. He gave recitals in Paris, Rome, Geneva and in Japan at Suntory Hall, Aoyama University in Tokyo, Nagoya Opera House and Kyoto Concert Hall.

Yasser El Serafi conducted the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra, the Alexandria Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestre Symphonique de Rueil-Malmaison, the Orchestre de l'Ecume and the Cairo Symphony Orchestra in 2005 where he performed the New World Symphony by Antonin Dvorak.

Yasser El Serafi will play in the Main Hall of Cairo Opera House as violin soloist the concert on D Major, op. 61 by Ludwig Van Beethoven, on Sunday June 5, 2010 at 9:00 PM with the Cairo Symphony Orchestra under the baton of maestro Andreas Spörri.