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First name: Houtof
Last name: Khoury
Dates: 1967
Category: Quartet
Nationality: lebanese
Opus name: L'exil intérieur (2005)
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Peculiarities: See: http://www.composers21.com/compdocs/khouryh.htm
Information: Khoury, Houtaf (b. 1967, Tripoli). Lebanese composer of orchestral, chamber, vocal, and piano works that have been performed in the Americas, Europe and the Middle East. Mr. Khoury studied piano privately with Michel Haddad in Tripoli from 1982-85 and composition, harmony and piano with Abdelhaq Masri at the Iqbal Academy of Music in Tripoli from 1985-88. He then studied composition with Yury 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 under the tutelage of Ivan A. Kotlarevsky in 1997. His music has been performed in Belarus, Brazil, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Lebanon, Mexico, Russia, Switzerland, Ukraine, the UK, and the USA, including at the Orient und Okzident festival in Weikersheim in 2002. He is also active in other positions. He served as artistic consultant to the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine from 1993-97 and as an assistant producer for the Marco Polo and Naxos labels from 1993-97. In addition, he has written the books La Musique au Liban entre 1943-1945 (1997, National Music Academy of Ukraine) and Les Deux Tendances Stylistiques dans la Musique Symphonique Libanaise (thesis, 1997, National Music Academy of Ukraine). He taught composition as an assistant to Yury Ishenko at the National Music Academy of Ukraine in 1994-95 and later taught composition and orchestration as a professor at the National Conservatory of Music in Beirut from 1997-2000. Moreover, he guest-lectured in Germany in 2002, on grants from the government of Germany and Jeunesses Musicales Deutschland. He is married to the pianist Tatiana Primak Khoury. E-mail address: houtafkhoury@yahoo.com