Toufic farroukh biography

Toufic Farroukh (Arabic: توفيق فرّوخ) is a Lebanese jazz composer, working in France.
Toufic Farroukh is a Lebanese jazz composer, working in France.
Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Toufic Farroukh was nurtured in a home where music resonated like the heartbeat of his family's heritage.

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TOUFIC FARROUKH „Untamed Elegance“

(Scale Art & Culture/Baco Distribution/VeevCom) 2023.
CD/digital
Various jazz genres – LEBANON/FRANCE

Saxophonist/composer Toufic Farroukh is a musician with long career behind him. His specific and highly sophisticated view of musical tendencies occupies a special place on the world’s international jazz scene. He is well-educated author and performer, but also a searcher for numerous less explored spheres of the world’s musical heritage.

His actual album „“Untamed Elegance“ will be realized on March 24, 2023, and presented live on stage on Thursday April 6, 2023, at „Studio de L’Ermitage“ (Paris). A large number of musicians participated in the realization of the current album, and I would specially add, the important role of arranger Leandro Aconcha. Five years have passed since the realization of „Villes Invisibles“, Mr. Farroukh’s last opus, which celebrated the art of conversation through dialogue inhabited by the drea

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Overview of Jazz Fusion musician Toufic Farroukh

Lebanese musician Toufic Farroukh is well-known in the Jazz Fusion genre. Toufic, who was born in Beirut, reflects his roots and his travels through various countries and customs in his music. Toufic's music is distinctive in that it fuses traditional Middle Eastern music with jazz, giving it a distinctive sound that is both fascinating and intriguing.

The music of Toufic is a celebration of the Middle East's rich cultural legacy and its synthesis with the modern world. His experiences and the numerous influences that have molded his life are expressed in his music. The elaborate and complicated rhythms, traditional instrumentation, and infusion of modern sounds and styles that define Toufic's music.

Music enthusiasts all across the world appreciate and admire Toufic since he is a master of his profession. His music is proof of the ability of music to unite people and cross cultural barriers. A celebration of life and the human spirit, Toufic's music takes listeners on a voyage across time and space. It

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Toufic Farroukh

Lebanese jazz musician

Toufic Farroukh (Arabic: توفيق فرّوخ) is a Lebanesejazz composer, working in France.

Overview

Toufic Farroukh is a saxophone player and composer of jazz with a middle-eastern flavour^[1] stemming from his bi-cultural roots in Lebanon and France.

His brother, a saxophone player, guided him in learning to play the instrument and taught him the basics. He was an amateur who instilled in Toufic the love of professionalism. They had discovered the saxophone in the Boy Scouts. The instrument was strange to their environment; unconventional, and used only for certain occasions.

Farroukh moved from Beirut to Paris, where he studied music in the conservatory and in the Advanced College of Music, saxophone was his principal instrument. He did not study jazz and its roots at all, nor played jazz on the saxophone.

Albums

Ali on Broadway (1994)
Little Secrets (1998)
Drab Zeen (2002)
Ali on Broadway / The other Mix (2004)
Tootya (2007)
Cinema Beyrouth (2011)
"Little Secrets / the acoustic Mix" (