Education
He studied with Michel Beroff, Daria Hovora and Tuija Hakkila.
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Simon Ghraichy
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Career
After a cosmopolitan childhood and teenage life (Lebanon, Mexico, Canada), Ghraichy landed in Paris and entered the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Boulogne-Billancourt at age 16. He was admitted to the Conservatoire de Paris in 2004 then to the Sibelius Academy of Helsinki in 2008. He also participated in masterclasses with famous pianists such as Cyprien Katsaris, Jean-Philippe Collard, Gergely Bogányi and Jerome Lowenthal.
In 2010 critic Robert Hughes at the Wall Street Journal positively reviewed Ghraichy’s interpretation of Liszt’s Reminiscences de Don Juan.
He has since been invited to many festivals, such as the University of South Australia international festival in South Africa, EXIT Festival in Serbia and Isang Yun Festival in South of Korea, and venues such as Salle Cortot and Musée d’Orsay in Paris, Muziekgebouw Frits Philips Eindhoven and Vredenburg Leeuwenbergh in the Netherlands, Sala Elisa Carillo – Centro Cultural Mexiquense Bicentenario in Mexico. He has performed as a soloist with orchestras, including State of Mexico Symphony Orchestra, Brazilian Symphony Orchestra (OSB), Lebanese National Symphony Orchestra, Cairo Symphony Orchestra, Almaty Symphony Orchestra and Guadalajara Juvenile Symphony Orchestra.
In June 2014, Simon Ghraichy played for the French and American United Nations-soldiers in Bamako, Mali. In 2015, Simon Ghraichy played at the Festival International d"Art Lyrique d"Aix-en-Provence, at the Baalbeck International Festival in Lebanon for the 60th edition, at Bard Music Festival in New York with the American Symphony Orchestra and was invited at the Lisztomanias Festival in France.
He makes his Carnegie Hall recital debut in October 2015 and also plays at the Kennedy Center in Washington District of Columbia in March 2016 and at the Berlin Philharmonie in the fall of 2016.
