Amira Fouad

Amira Fouadi is a concert pianist and artistic director of Encore Dubai, a performing arts company in Dubai. She inaugurated and manages the 'Music in the studio' series of concerts and masterclasses at the Dubai Opera and established and directs the Music Academy at Nord Anglia School International and recently formed the new Youth Orchestra.

As a pianist, she has been heard at some of the world's great concert halls such as Bösendorfer Hall in Vienna, Roy Thompson Hall in Toronto, Usher Hall in Edinburgh, The National Concert Hall in Dublin, Cairo Opera House, St John’s Smith Square, Cadogan Hall and Wigmore Hall in London. Amira has also performed with various orchestras internationally such as the English Chamber Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and the Cairo Symphony Orchestra.

Previously, she was the founder and artistic director of the Festival of the Nile, a celebration of chamber music repertoire with the aim to develop a cultural exchange of ideas between Egyptian and international artists.