Fouad, Mounib band to perform at Cairo Opera’s Summer Festival

CAIRO – 4 July 2018: Mohamed Fouad and Ahmed Mounib will be staging a second concert Thursday during Cairo Opera House’s annual Summer Festival at the Open Theatre.

Working in the field of medicine, Fouad fell in love with music at a very early age and used to play the Piano and express his thoughts and feelings through music.

Mounib is a professional violinist who studied music at the Higher Music Institute Conservatoire then travelled to continue his studies in Germany. Mounib and Fouad met in Germany and decided to create the band despite the distance; they performed concerts in various music venues across the country.

The band is known for playing a special kind of music that is a mixture of oriental music and Jazz.

The International Summer Festival is a considered a rich cultural season and a tradition that the Bibliotheca Alexandrina has created in order to add a unique color and taste to summer. The Art Center at BA aims at presenting a variety of arts, in addition to classic Egyptian art which attracts a diverse audience.

Cairo Opera House’s annual Summer Festival will be presented at Damanhur, Al-Beheira Governorate, as well as Alexandria and Cairo in July and August.

The festival’s program includes 58 concerts varying from jazz concerts to religious hymns concerts; ten concerts will take place at the Cairo Opera House's Open Theatre from July 4 to 19, and four concerts in the Damanhour Opera, 14 concerts at the Sayed Darwish theatre and El Romany Theater in Kom el-Dekka, Alexandria, will take place from July 18 to 30.

Additionally, 30 concerts will be presented during the 27th edition of the Salah El-Din Castle Festival for Music and Singing.