Abdel Rahman El Bacha

Abdel Rahman El Bacha (Arabic: عبد الرحمن الباشا, born October 23, 1958) is a Lebanese pianist and composer.

His repertory includes over fifty concertos and is largely based on the works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Rachmaninoff, Ravel and Prokofiev.

[1] El Bacha[2] was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1958 to a family of musicians - his father was a well-known composer and his mother was the famous singer Wedad.

At the age of nineteen, in June 1978, El Bacha won the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition by a unanimous judgment.

He was recently awarded the Médaille de l’Ordre du Mérite by the President of the Lebanese Republic, the highest distinction of his native country.