Last night on BBC/PRI’s The World, Lisa Mullins interviewed Waleed. The conversation discussed his passion for music and composing and the significant events in his life that have inspired his compositions. Ms. Mullins played several audio clips of Waleed performing some of his pieces.
The interview can be heard, in its entirety, at www.theworld.org/2009/08/20/global-hit-and-geo-answer.

On Thursday, August 20th, Waleed’s interview with Lisa Mullins, host of The World (www.pri.org), will be aired on NPR/PRI (National Public Radio/Public Radio International). Please check your local listings for air time.  Watch for the podcast, too.

Waleed will be performing at the Northside Community Church, 929 Barton Dr., Ann Arbor, MI, 48105, on Mother’s Day weekend on Saturday, May 9 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, May 10 at 4:30 p.m.
The program will be:
Haydn: Sonata No.8 in A flat
Beethoven: “Sonate Pathetique”
The Ann Arbor Premiere of “Sonata per Pianoforte” by Armenian-Lebanese composer [...]

Following its launch performance on June 19, 2007 at Plaisterers Hall in London, Waleed Howrani’s Concerto for Alto Saxophone, Strings, and Percussion will receive its official world premiere at Al Farabi series on October 15, 2008. The English Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Clarke Rundell with soloist Simon Haram, will perform the Concerto at Cadogan Hall.

On September 20, 2007, Waleed Howrani gave a lecture-demonstration at Kerrytown Concert House, Ann Arbor, MI, for the Ann Arbor Area Piano Teachers Guild. Howrani’s talk, Sharing the Teachings of Emil Gilels and the Methods of the Russian Piano Pedagogy, included such topics as:

Piano, the most misunderstood dynamic
The two sins of rubato
How to avoid banalities [...]

Waleed Howrani’s Concerto for Alto Saxophone, Strings & Percussion was presented by the English Chamber Orchestra on June 19th, 2007, at London’s Plaisterers Hall at a launch concert for the Al Farabi concert series of 2008. Musicstage, the management of the series, “…considers that the music of Waleed Howrani merits the high profile and enduring [...]

On June 19, 2007, Waleed Howrani’s work, Concerto for Alto Saxophone, Strings and Percussion, will be presented at a launch concert by the English Chamber Orchestra at Plaisterers Hall, London, UK. The concerto will then have its world premiere at the Al Farabi Concerto series during the 2008-2009 season in London (Queen Elizabeth Hall), Paris, [...]