José Feghali (March 28, 1961 – December 9, 2014,[1]) was a Brazilian pianist, who, until his death, was an Artist-in-Residence at Texas Christian University's school of music in piano.
In the US, he appeared in all the major cities and in virtually every state of the nation, including performances with the orchestras of Chicago, St. Louis, Dallas, Houston, Detroit, Atlanta, Baltimore, Pittsburgh and the National Symphony, and had worked with many eminent conductors including Kurt Masur, Christoph Eschenbach, Yuri Temirkanov and Leonard Slatkin.
Solo and concerto performances have taken him to Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom, France, Holland, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Poland, Bulgaria, Turkey, China, Singapore, Hong Kong and several countries in Latin America.
ConferenceXP is an open-source software platform created by Microsoft Research used to deliver broadcast-quality audio and video for real-time distributed collaboration and distance learning environments.
José's changes to the ConferenceXP code has enabled the software to be one of the only software/hardware solutions available today with the capability of streaming compressed video simultaneously with CD-quality uncompressed audio, thus considerably reducing the bandwidth requirements for a successful distance learning music experience.