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Joseph Zaarour
Joseph Zaarour, a Franco-Lebanese born in 2000, studied at the Marist Brothers school in Jbeil, Lebanon from 2003 to 2018, and obtained a “very good” grade in the French scientific baccalaureate. He started music with the piano at the age of eight in his school, he progressed very slowly until his discovery of classical and baroque music four years later, his interest in composition and interpretation immediately grew, he read at that time Rameau’s treatise on harmony and Fux’s Gradus ad Parnassum. He then enrolled in a local music school and took part in harmony and piano lessons, unfortunately there is no harpsichord teacher in Lebanon, forming a dream of becoming a great harpsichordist. At the age of fifteen, he left Jbail’s music teachers to continue playing the piano at Kaslik University (the highest musical authority in Lebanon) so that he could continue his studies in Austria. He was finally accepted in 2018 at MDW Vienna as a student of Erich Traxler, and continued his harpsichord studies, he plans to study the harpsichord for another ten years or so. He has had lessons with diverse teachers in Vienna like, Céline Frisch, Iason Marmaras, Magdalena Hasibeder, Stefan Gottfried, and Eugène Michelangeli; and he also participated to various workshops, building his clavichord in 2020 with Gottfried Schmidt, and taking lessons of Basso Continuo in Venice in 2021 with Anne Marie Dragosits. He is currently exploring the lesser known repertoire with recordings of composers like Pierre Février und Étienne Nicholas Méhul, and he works on different projects among which the translation of the “Mémoires sur la Musique des Chinois, tant Anciens que Modernes” by Joseph Marie Amiot.
Link to his youtube channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UCT93psubzmPb-hJtLppTk0A
Joseph Zaarour Harpsichordist 