1. Mohammed Fairouz was born on November 1,1985 and is an American composer.
10 Facts About Mohammed Fairouz
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Mohammed Fairouz is one of the most frequently performed composers of his generation and has been described by Daniel J Wakin of The New York Times as an "important new artistic voice".
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Mohammed Fairouz's teachers included Gunther Schuller, Halim El-Dabh, and John Heiss.
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Mohammed Fairouz says that he first set the poem "The True Knowledge" by Oscar Wilde to music at the age of 17 and has gone on to write hundreds of art songs and over a dozen song cycles.
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Mohammed Fairouz has written an oratorio entitled Zabur, which was premiered by the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra in April 2015.
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In May 2015, MSNBC's Morning Joe announced that Mohammed Fairouz would be teaming up with best-selling American author David Ignatius to create a political opera called 'The New Prince' based on the teachings of Niccolo Machiavelli.
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Mohammed Fairouz is currently at work on a new opera about the lives and deaths of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto.
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Mohammed Fairouz has written a violin concerto called Al-Andalus for Rachel Barton Pine and the Alabama Symphony Orchestra.
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Mohammed Fairouz has written a clarinet concerto, Tahrir, for David Krakauer.
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Mohammed Fairouz has written a sonata for unaccompanied violin called Native Informant for Rachel Barton Pine.