Bechara El Khoury (composer)

Bechara El Khoury - ( born March 18, 1957 in Beirut ) is a Lebanese- French poet and composer.

Life

El- Khoury comes from an upper middle-class Christian family from Lebanon who already approached a young age led him to the music. Already at the age of sixteen, he led the choir of the church of St. Elie in Antelias. In 1979 he went as many bourgeois Lebanese in this age, for further study in Paris and became a master student of Pierre Petit at the École Normale de Musique. 1983 his compositions have been performed for the one hundredth anniversary of the Lebanese poet Khalil Gibran in Paris and at Erato an album was issued with his music, which had the Colonne Orchestra under Pierre Dervaux recorded with pianist David Lively.

Under the impression of the Lebanese civil war, which broke out in 1975, he composed 1980 to 1985, a Lebanon - trilogy: the orchestral works Les ruines de Beyrouth and Le Lebanon in Flames as well as the Requiem Aux libanais martyrs de la guerre. Since 1987, El- Khoury has French citizenship.

He was appointed a Knight of the Ordre National du Cedre the Lebanese Republic in 2001.

Compositions (selection at DNB)

  • Aux frontières de nulle part: concerto pour violon et orchester, op 62 all the notes at: Paris: Editions Max Eschig; Munich: G. Ricordi / Otto Junne Musikverlag
  • Suite symphonique (1992 )
  • No sérénade. 2
  • No sérénade. 1
  • Poème symphonique No.. 4
  • Poème symphonique No.. 1
  • Poème pour piano et orchester No. 2
  • Poème pour piano et orchester No. 1
  • Poème
  • Méditation symphonique
  • Image symphonique
  • Harmonies crépusculaires
  • Le chant d' amour
  • Méditation poétique, op 41
  • Concerto pour piano et orchester, op 36
  • Symphony, Op 37
  • Requiem
  • Poème symphonique No.. 3, Op 34
  • Danse pour orchester, Op 9

Recordings (selection)

  • Bechara El Khoury -; Dimitri Vassilakis; Hideki Nagano: New York, Tears and Hope / The Rivers Engulfed, Hong Kong: Naxos Digital Services Ltd., 2006.
  • Bechara El Khoury -; Vladimir Sirenko; Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra: The Ruins of Beirut / Hill of Strangeness, Hong Kong. Naxos Digital Services Ltd., 2004.
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