The valerie farag music awards
The Valerie Farag Music Award was established in 2016, at the American university in Cairo. It is a cash award conferred at every commencement to an outstanding AUC graduate with a major or minor in Music Performance or Music Technology. So far, the following list contains the 12 recipients who have received the award until now.
- Mohamed Abu Qersh (Fall 2016-2017)
- Myrna Ghanem (Spring 2016-2017)
- Ahmed Refai (Fall 2017-2018)
- Abdelrahman Baheyeldin (Fall 2017-2018)
- Mahi Kourdi (Spring 2017-2018)
- Nathalie Bichara (Fall 2018-2019)
- Joudi Abou Ayed (Spring 2018-2019)
- Georgina Bassily (Fall 2021-2022)
- Ahmed Azzazy (Spring 2021-2022)
- Karim Georgy (Fall 2022-2023)
- Farida Montasser (Spring 2023-2024)
- Tasnim ElAidy (Fall 2023-2024)
In 2022, an agreement to establish another fund, at the University of Illinois (Urbana Champagne) to provide an award to the highest performing undergraduate student studying voice or piano as their primary instrument & who are in the final semester of their degree program.
The list of recipients are as follows :
2022 Recipient - Kennedy Ortmeier, Vocalist.
2023 Recipient - Helen Jiang, Pianist.
2024 Recipient - Mathew Hauser, Vocalist.
A recording of kennedy is presented below -
Let us Remember that ..
Valerie was a butterfly spreading love, goodness, devotion, and sincerity. As her husband, I feel proud and fortunate to have shared life together with her. Death did not take us apart as our spirits remain united ...
Never the spirit shall die
The spirit shall cease to be nevor
Never the spirit was not
End and beginning are dreams
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