Mohammed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah has returned from America, specifically, from Boston, Massachusetts, where he was Visiting Scholar of Composition and ethnomusicology at Boston University. His magical mystery tour began in Cairo, of course, his hometown, in 1990, the year he left for Austria, German and Switzerland to pursue an advanced degree in theory and electro-acoustic composition. He stayed there for 6 years, learning both the culture and language, and earning the highest degree in composition. He composed several compositions one of them is the very wonderful and popular electro-acoustic composition "Die Wunderztahl".
Between 1999- 2007, he took up a position at the Cairo Conservatoire as associate professor and there produced a number of multimedia concerts at the Cairo Opera House. He also pioneered music for the deaf and wrote a research on his innovative notation entitled, "Seeing the Sound", and conducted a deaf ensemble in concert using his visual notation.
His tour continues to America in 2007 with a sabbatical leave to become a Visiting Scholar at Composition Department of School of Music at Boston University. While in Boston, he also taught the deaf, gave lectures, and put on a number of multimedia performances, including Barsoum Looks for a Job, a violin solo accompanying portions of the first silent movie in Egypt. Ironically, Americans appeared more interested in Egyptian music than the electronic music he knew so well. But again, he also took the time to learn the language and culture, strengthening his cross-cultural view of the world.
He returned to Giza in 2011, and took up the position as a full time professor at the Composition Dept., University of Arts in Egypt. He now approaches his composition from a truly global perspective, striving to achieve a synthesis that captures his fascinating journey.