Hany Rizkalla studied Violin with Erakli Beridze, Archill Kharadze and Vitold Kolasinski of the Cairo Conservatory in Egypt and Jaque Israelivitch, concert master of the Toronto Symphony in Canada. Hany Performed with the Cairo Symphony Orchestra, Cairo Opera, Cairo Ballet Company from 1991 to 1997 and the Oshawa Symphony Orchestra, Ontario, Canada 2006-2007. He is now a Violinist in Garden State Philharmonic in New Jersey and Adelphi Symphony Orchestra in Long Island, New York. Hany studied with Ofer Falk and Vanessa Lucas-Smith, members of the Allegri Quartet, in a chamber music workshop in Shrewsburry, England summer 2013. "I was immediately very impressed by your playing, but more so by how quickly you picked up ideas and applied them in your playing." (Vanessa Lucas-Smith). He studied with Olivier Charlier in the Academie International D’Ete de Nice, France, summer 2008 and Ursula Gorniak, "Music in the Mediterranean", University of Malta, summer 1994. Besides his busy life as an architect, Hany is an active performer in New York City, he performed in off-Broadway shows like Brigadoon 2009, Titanic 2010 and The Grand Hotel in 2012 with Blue hill Troop Company and others. He also Performed in Whitney Museum and twice in Carnegie hall. Hany continues to refine his composition skills through his evening studies in Juilliard School in New York "This is very impressive writing, finish the piece, and then it needs to be heard by an audience, It's first rate" (Conrad Cummings)
