Khoury, Houtaf (b. 1967, Tripoli)

Lebanese composer of mostly orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, and piano works that have been performed in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Mr Khoury studied piano with Abdelhaq Masri before leaving to Ukraine where he studied composition with Yuri Ishenko at the National Music Academy of Ukraine in Kyiv from 1988-97, where he earned his MMus with distinction in 1993 and his PhD in 1997 with Professor Ivan kotlyarevsky. His music has been performed in Belarus, Brazil, Ecuador, Egypt, El- Salvador, Cuba, France, Germany, Austria Italy, Lebanon, Mexico, Peru, Russia, Switzerland, Ukraine, Qatar, Belgium, Norway, Spain, UK, and the USA,Greece, Cyprus, ..etc. In addition, he has written two books "La Musique au Liban entre 1943-1985 " (1996, National Music Academy of Ukraine) and "Les Deux Tendances Stylistiques dans la Musique Symphonique Libanaise" (1997, National Music Academy of Ukraine). He collaborate with excellent orchestras , quartets and performers , Among The Bamberger Symphoniker , Ukrainian State Orchestra, The Kharkov Philharmonic orchestra, Qatar Philharmonic , Mannheim Chamber Orchestra , Lebanese National Philharmonic Orchestra,Wissam Boustany , Dimitri Ashkenazy , Joan Illuna , Ha - Na Chang, Pierre-Dominique Ponnelle , Juan Carlos Garvayo, Volodymyr Sirenko , Leonardo Muzii,Dante Quartet , Brodsky Quartet , Quartet Alter Ego , Member of Luzern Orchestra, Weimar piano quartet, Robert Plane , Joachim Kwetzinsky, Fadia Tomb El-Hage, Andrea Bischoff Isabel Villanueva & Tatiana Primak Khoury. The recordings of his flute concerto, flute sonata & third piano sonata on Nimbus Alliance & Grand piano/Naxos were highly praised and received by the critics.