Amir Farid completed a Bachelor of Music (Honours) and Master of Music degree at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne and has been working and developing under the guidance of Professor Ronald Farren-Price. He attended the Australian National Academy of Music where he studied with Rita Reichman, Geoffrey Tozer and Timothy Young.
In 2009, he graduated with distinction as a Scholar supported by the Gordon Calway Stone Memorial Award at the Royal College of Music London, studying with Andrew Ball.
He has performed concerti with the Sydney Symphony, Melbourne Symphony, Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra Victoria, Australian Youth Orchestra, Melbourne Youth and ANAM Orchestras, including Rachmaninoff’s 2nd Piano Concerto at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl.
As a chamber musician, Amir is pianist of the Benaud Trio winning the Piano Trio prize at the 2005 Australian Chamber Music Competition, and with whom he undertook a residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. As an accompanist, he was winner of the prize for best pianist at the 2006 Mietta Song Recital award, and the 2007 Geoffrey Parsons Award.
In 2013 he was awarded the inaugural Dame Nellie Melba Opera Trust Repetiteur scholarship.
Amir is the recipient of various awards and scholarships, including the 2006 Australian National Piano Award Australian Music Foundation, the Ian Potter Cultural Trust, the Royal Overseas League, the Swiss Global Artistic Foundation, the Tait Memorial Trust and the University of Melbourne’s Donovan Johnson Memorial Scholarship.
