José Feghali

José Feghali (born March 8, 1961 in Rio de Janeiro , † December 9, 2014 in Fort Worth ) was a Brazilian pianist and music teacher.

Feghali went to London at the age of fifteen to study with Maria Curcio and continued his education at the Royal Academy of Music . In 1985 he won the gold medal and the chamber music award at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition .

In the period that followed, he had more than 1,000 international concerts as a concert pianist with orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic , the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra , the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra . He has performed at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center and has participated in many of the Foundation's concerts as a member of the Art Committee on the Board of Directors of the Cliborn Foundation .

Feghali was also a respected recitalist and performed as a chamber musician with James Galway , Truls Mørk , Antonio Meneses , Alisa Weilerstein , Edgar Meyer , David Shifrin , Olivier Charlier , Régis Pasquier and John Vickers, among others . At Texas Christian University , he taught piano and developed a video conferencing program whose sound quality made it possible to hold master classes over the Internet. In the last years of his life he suffered from depression. He shot himself in his apartment in December 2014.

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SURNAME	Feghali, José
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Brazilian pianist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	March 8, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rio de Janeiro
DATE OF DEATH	December 9, 2014
Place of death	Fort Worth