Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah is an Egyptian composer of contemporary music. He is a member of Egypt's fourth generation of classical composers. He studied composition at the Cairo Conservatoire under Gamal Abdel-Rahim and in Austria under Dieter Kaufmann. He obtained his PhD in composition from the Academy of Arts University in Egypt 1989. He was promoted at the Cairo Conservatoire to assistant professor in 1989 and to associate professor in 2003. In 2007, he was appointed as a visiting scholar at Composition and Theory Department of Boston University in the USA. In 2011, he returned to Egypt, where he was promoted to Professor at Composition & Conducting Department of Academy of Arts.
Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah is a multidisciplinary artist combining many fields in his compositions such as: poetry, painting, photography, and cinema montage, and presents them simultaneously and unconventionally using computer technology. He presented his first experimental and acoustic music concert in Egypt at the Cairo Opera House on 22 November 1999.
He has written some movements in modern graphic notation, under the title Nine Miniatures for String Quartet, premiered in Rome on 2 December 1999. He is also the first Egyptian composer to have written a composition with a specific music notation for the deaf. He has established a chamber percussion ensemble consisting entirely of deaf students in Egypt where he conducted them to perform a visual music composition under the title "El-Hon" in a public concert at the Cairo Opera House on 29 March 2005. He has completed his research at the same field of music for the deaf with cooperation of Horace Mann School for the deaf students in Boston.
Abdelwahab Abdelfattah has cooperated with several Egyptian biologists and physicians to study the effectiveness of sound vibrations on the human bones and sound frequencies on blood pressure and brain function. He composed a therapeutic work utilizing water sound effects for depression, which was performed at Maadi Hospital in Cairo in 2006.
Dr. Abdelfatah is very interested in creating new sound and musical terms such as "Sound Theatricalization & Filmlization" and "Sound Scenography" which means the translation of the dramatic feeling of any sound event into a specific visual display or embodied arts upon the stage.
Dr Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah published two books, the first entitled "The Art of Orchestration" and the second entitled "Seeing the Sound".
Abdelfattah's works have been covered in both public and cultural media, where he has been quoted as being a comprehensive artist and a multi-media music pioneer in Egypt and the Arab countries.
Listening "Do3a'a ElKarawan" VI
Listening "Egyptian Dance for Oboe & Piano"