Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Participation on a panel as a judge of other composers

• Member of a judging committee of the competition of Supreme Cultural Council for the best Egyptian composers’ works for awarding the State Prize, (2001).

• Participation on a panel of International Judging Committees of VBF in Rome, Italy, 2001.

• Member of Composers’ Evaluation Committee at Cairo Conservatory (1997-present).

• Member of music Students’ Examination Committee at Egyptian Academy of Arts University (1997-present).

• Supervisor for post graduated students (master and Ph.D. degrees at Academy of Arts University (1998-prent).

• Supervisor for the organization of public concerts presenting the works of young composers at Cairo Opera House (1999-2006).

My membership in Professional Associations

• Member of Massachusetts Teaching Associate MTA (2008-present).
• Member of the Musician Syndicate of Egypt (1982-present).
• Member of the Applied Arts Designers Syndicate of Egypt (1982-present).
• Member of the Egyptian Supreme Cultural Council Music Committee (1998-2002).
• In charge of the electro- acoustic and experimental music concerts at Cairo Opera House (1998-2005).
• Member of the Composition Department Session, Cairo Conservatory, Academy of Arts University (1998 - present).
• Composer and program coordinator for contemporary music exchange between Egypt and foreign cultural centers in Egypt(1999-2005).

Prizes /awards

1. Prize of Egyptian Culture Minister for his composition “image from countryside” trio for flute, vibraphone and Egyptian percussion (Tambourine), 1986.
2- Prize of Egyptian Culture Minister for his composition “The Three Geese” song for children’s choir with a dance scene of children’s ballet, 1987.
3- Scholarship award to study in Austria (1990-1993).
4- Fellowship prize from the Prohelvetia Bureau of the Swiss Embassy in Cairo to visit Zurich, Swaziland as
a guest composer (2001).

Publications

(Authorship of Scholarly Articles and Books)
(Home)

1. Essays

*ABDELFATTAH, Mohamed Abdelwahab: “Awatef AbdelKarim the First Female Composer in Egypt”: Ministry of Culture, Supreme Cultural Council, Arabic, Cairo, 2007.
http://drabdelwahabsarticles.blogspot.com/

*ABDELFATTAH, Mohamed Abdelwahab: “Flower on the Lotus Lake” (the Well-Known Professor of Music, Samha Al-kholy). Prism, Magazine of the Ministry of Culture, Cairo, Arabic, 2003.

*ABDELFATTAH, Mohamed Abdelwahab: “My Composition Miniatures” Afaaq Magazine of the Ministry of Culture, Supreme Cultural Council, Cairo, Arabic, 2002.

*ABDELFATTAH, Mohamed Abdelwahab: Series of five articles on the topic of Music’s role in Society, Al-qahera (Newspaper), Arabic, Cairo 2002:
“Computer Music”
http://wahabspublications.blogspot.com/2008/05/computer-music.html
“Music Therapy”
“Aural Pollution”
http://wahabspublications.blogspot.com/2008/05/music-education.html
“Music & Children Education”
http://wahabspublications.blogspot.com/2008/05/music-and-childern-education.html
“Music Makes Peace”
http://wahabspublications.blogspot.com/2008/05/music-maks-peace_28.html

*ABDELFATTAH, Mohamed Abdelwahab: “Music of the Future I “Afaaq Magazine of the Ministry of Culture, Supreme Cultural Council, Cairo, Arabic, 2000,
http://wahabspublications.blogspot.com/2008/10/music-of-future.html

*ABDELFATTAH, Mohamed Abdelwahab: “Music of the Future” Cairo Post Newspaper, Cairo, English, 2000.

*ABDELFATTAH, Mohamed Abdelwahab: “Tone-Color Composition” Afaaq Magazine of the Ministry of Culture, Supreme Cultural Council, Cairo, Arabic, 1999.

*ABDELFATTAH, Mohamed Abdelwahab: “Melody in the Music of Gamal Abdel-Rahim” In Festschrift for Gamal Abdel-Rahim, ed. Samha El-Kholy and John Robison (The Binational Fulbright Commission in Egypt), pp. 85-117, English, (1993)

2.Books

• ABDELFATTAH, Mohamed Abdelwahab: “Seeing the Sound”, Academy of Arts Express, Dafater El-Akademeiya, 2 volumes 7 and 8, 2005, Arabic, No. 2005/17655.
http://wahabspublications.blogspot.com/2008/05/music-and-childern-education.html

• ABDELFATTAH, Mohamed Abdelwahab: “The Art of Orchestration”, Roza Elyousef Express, El-Kitab El-Zahaby , 2001, Arabic, No. 2001/18394, International Code 977-201-056-9.
http://wahabspublications.blogspot.com/2008/05/art-of-orchestration.html

3.Commercial CDs

• *Conserved Ex 256-2, various composers, and 1995:
"Die Wunderzahl": Electro-acoustic collage and text performed, as if a message for another world, in German
http://wahabscds.blogspot.com/2008/10/conserved.html

• *La Tacht Alea-01-97, various composers from Austria and Egypt, 1997.
"As Short as Possible": String quartet No. 1, 1993
http://wahabscds.blogspot.com/2008/10/alea-01-97.html