Toronto and Berlin-based composer-pianist John Kameel Farah merges the musical worlds of synthesizers and keyboards, with their ancestor, the pipe organ, itself a kind of mechanical synthesizer.

Listeners could shut their eyes and let the sounds cross the space above them. Tones from the organ (a vintage Canadian-made Casavant organ) will be filtered and looped through computer effects to alter its sound and play with the church's acoustics. The concert will be in two halves with a short intermission, with a series of minimalistic and maximalistic cosmos-themed compositions and improvisations.

A video clip before the last concert in Berlin:

https://youtu.be/owLRorVVMrc

Grace Church (formerly St. Andrews)

383 Jarvis St, Toronto

entry by donation (suggested $10)

doors open 7:30pm

music begins 8:00pm

http://www.johnfarah.com/

for more info/questions write to: john@johnfarah.com

Facebook event:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1640453079549943/

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John Kameel Farah is a composer, pianist and visual artist based between Toronto and Berlin. 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, and in 2015 performed Bach's "Wohltemperierte Klavier" Book 1, in Berlin. Toronto’s NOW Magazine named his as best pianist 2006.

Farah now focuses primarily on his own hybrid of improvisation, composition and electronic music. He has toured across the U.K., Europe, USA, Canada and also given concerts in the Middle–East, Brazil, South Korea and Mexico. In 1999 and 2002, he gave performances and masterclasses at the Edward Said National Conservatory in the West Bank. He is a member of the Canadian Electronic Ensemble, as well as pianist-composer for Peggy Baker Dance Projects.