Rupert Egerton-Smith: Classical Piano Concert Tour in Lebanon

Directed and edited by Tony El Khoury

Sound recording and editing by Jad Kas BoomBox Studios

Original music by Rupert Egerton-Smith

Rupert is an internationally renowned pianist and composer from Britain. has played solo recitals and with orchestras at concert halls in Paris, London and Berlin, and has composed music for Hollywood motion picture trailers, and the BBC and Channel 4 in the UK. He is currently represented by Alexander & Buono International Academy in New York.

This is his third visit to Lebanon, where he has performed twice before- at the Sursock Palace in 2011 and Grand Sofar Hotel in 2018. Rupert and I have been friends since we met at school in England in 1986.

We have often collaborated on creative projects- Rupert composed the music for documentary films about previous exhibitions in Lebanon: at The Rose House, Beit Boustani, Al Zaher (Spears House) and the Grand Sofar Hotel. More recently, Rupert composed soundtracks for my stop motion painting animations exhibited at Hammam Al Jadeed in Saida.

It is a natural progression for him to return to Lebanon now, and come to play firstly at Dar Al Mona in Batroun, North Lebanon (where i was exhibiting at the ‘Capture’ @beyxart exhibition), then Arthaus Beirut, with a grand finale at Hammam Al Jadeed in Saida SHARQY, South Lebanon