[2] The first Arab pianist to record Beethoven's piano concertos (Cairo Symphony Orchestra, Ahmed El Saedi), Ramzi Yassa has performed in halls as renowned as the Vienna's Musikverein, the Berliner Philharmonie, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Barbican Centre, the Royal Albert Hall or the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Forbidden City Concert Hall, the Biblioteca Alexandrina, and in Egypt’s New Capital Opera in 2021, collaborating with conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Charles Groves, Yehudi Menuhin, Zubin Mehta, Leonard Slatkin, Alexander Sladkovsky, as well as other major Egyptian conductors.
[1] He also performed a series of concerts with "The Peace Orchestra" conducted by Nader Abbassi [de], in particular at the City Hall in Paris.
Ramzi Yassa is a founder member of the ADAP, Association of Artists for Peace, and has given concerts in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Greece and Turkey.
Yassa teaches at the École Normale de Musique "Alfred Cortot" in Paris, where he currently resides.
He is a recipient of the Liszt Centennial Commemorative Medal as well as the 2007 Egyptian Merit State Prize for Music, for the first time awarded to a performing musician.