John Kameel Farah
musician and composer

John Kameel Farah is a composer and pianist who embraces aspects of Baroque and Early Music, Middle-Eastern Music, Improvisation and Electronics. Born in Brampton, Ontario, he studied composition and piano at the University of Toronto, where he received the Glenn Gould Composition Award. In 1999 he studied privately with Terry Riley in California, and later at the Arabic Music Retreat in Hartford.

In concert, Farah combines the piano with synthesizers and electronics, moving freely between improvisations, soundscapes, and driving, asymmetrical rhythms, referring to it as “Baroque-Middle-Eastern-Cyberpunk”. He also presents his project, “Music for Organ and Synthesizers” in churches across Canada and Europe.

In addition to creating music for dance, John collaborated with astrophysicist John Dubinski, setting music to simulations of galaxy formations in a project called "Gravitas". Farah also creates intricate ink drawings, sometimes projecting animations of them during his concerts. He tours regularly across Europe, the U.K and North America, and has performed in South Korea, Brazil, Mexico, and Israel/Palestine. He has been a member of the Canadian Electronic Ensemble in 2010.

For Peggy Baker Dance Projects: from 2012, John composed and performed the scores for Aleatoric Solo No. 1, Aleatoric Solo No. 2, Aleatoric Duet No. 2, Aleatoric Trio No. 1, and locus plot; and performed as a pianist for Piano/Quartet, Sylvan Quartet, Encoded Revision, and In a Landscape.

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