The Lebanese pianist and composer, Abdel Rahman El Bacha, was born in a family of musicians - his father was a well-known composer and his mother was a singer. He is a nephew of a famous painter. El Bacha

Abdel Rahman El Bacha won a string of prizes in competitions in the coming years, but his greatest victory came at the age of 19, in June 1978, when he won first prize at the Concours Reine Elisabeth de