John Kameel Farah is a composer and pianist based between Berlin and Toronto. He studied composition and piano performance at the University of Toronto, where he received the Glenn Gould Composition Award twice during his studies. In 1999 he had private lessons with Terry Riley in California, and later at the Arabic Music Retreat in Hartford. In 1998, he performed the complete solo piano works of Arnold Schoenberg in Toronto. Toronto’s NOW Magazine named his as Best Pianist 2006. John received the 2011 K.M. Hunter Artist Award for Music from the Ontario Arts Council.

Farah now focuses primarily on his own creative hybrid of improvisation, composition and electronic music. Simultaneously using piano, synthesizer, computer, and at times harpsichord, his solo performances exist somewhere between the concert hall and an experimental DJ set, mixing forays into free improvisation, jazz, electro–acoustics, middle-eastern modes, and ambient minimalism and distilling them into cohesive, surrealistic structures. 

Farah performs regularly in Berlin and Toronto, and has toured internationally across the U.K., Europe, USA, Canada, the Middle–East, Brazil, South Korea and Mexico. In 1999 and 2002, he visited the Edward Said National Conservatory in the West Bank, giving performances and masterclasses in Ramallah, East Jerusalem and Bethlehem. 
His newest solo album is called Time Sketches, released on the Neue Meister label. He collaborates with Peggy Baker Dance Projects, and in 2016 won a Dora Mavor Moore Award for his work with choreographer Peggy Baker. He has also been a member of the Canadian Electronic Ensemble since 2009.

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