BEST NEW ARTIST
Sherif Dahroug
Composer, concert artist & author. A contemporary voice grounded in ancient wisdom and architectural form.
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION — 68TH GRAMMY®
Confirmed Consideration for Sherif Dahroug
Honored to be confirmed in the General Field and presented in two genre categories below. Streams, credits, one-sheet, and press excerpts are included.
BEST NEW ARTIST
ALBUM OF THE YEAR — Dichotomy
Best Contemporary Instrumental Album — Dichotomy
Best Instrumental Composition — Sur le Fil de l’Aube
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General Field — Confirmed
With gratitude for your consideration.
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Dichotomy
DICHOTOMY — A Tone Poem of Five Metamorphoses
A ritual work for solo piano: light & shadow, earth & sky—unified in one living architecture of sound.
Artist’s Vision
My music is born as a sanctuary of sound — a place where silence turns into breath, and breath into resonance. Each composition is written as a living architecture, carrying the memory of ancient rituals and the promise of new horizons.
I seek to offer more than melodies: to create thresholds of experience, where listeners step beyond the everyday and encounter a space of wonder, intimacy, and cosmic dialogue. This is my devotion — to let music become a vessel of light, carrying both mystery and truth.
Guided by the timeless principles of proportion, form, and symbolism, I shape sound as one might design an enduring work of architecture. Every interval, harmony, and silence is placed with purpose, creating spaces where the listener can reflect, connect, and be moved.
Rooted in traditions where art, philosophy, and spirituality converge, my aim is to create works that transcend the moment of their creation. Whether commissioned for a personal vision, a public event, or an artistic collaboration, each composition is conceived as an enduring presence—one that carries the resonance of the past, speaks to the present, and projects into the infinite horizon.
“From music is born the silent logos of the cosmos; each note echoes its architecture.” — S. Dahroug
Submissions
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Submission #1
Best Contemporary Instrumental Album
DICHOTOMY — A Tone Poem of Five Metamorphoses for Piano
A contemporary ritual for solo piano where dualities — light/dark, earth/sky — are embraced as one living architecture of sound.
- Total duration
- 39′05″
- Release date
- July 7, 2025
- Composer / Piano
- Sherif Dahroug
- Label / UPC
- Lyre de Mercure · 199515343914
- Producer / Mastering
- Sherif Dahroug
- Artwork
- Riham ElGamal
Track list & ISRC
- Exordium: Horizon of the Two Sycamores — 9:03 — ISRC QZTBE2506893
- Limen: Nile | Eridanus — 7:58 — ISRC QZTBE2506894
- Elevatio: Nymphaea | Papyrus — 8:00 — ISRC QZTBE2506895
- Coronatio: Polaris | Orion — 10:55 — ISRC QZTBE2506896
- Epilogue: The Breath of Atum — 3:08 — ISRC QZTBE2506897
Submission #2
Best Instrumental Composition
Sur le Fil de l’Aube — Vision II from Regards sur l’Horizon
A threshold piece: the first breath of light over the horizon, written as a contemplative arc between darkness and dawn.
- Duration
- 7′56″
- Release date
- September 20, 2024
- Composer / Piano
- Sherif Dahroug
- Label / UPC
- Lyre de Mercure · 198886928645
- ISRC
- QZWFG2454025
Press & Recognition
“A transcendent experience… a sonic architecture that feels ancient and futuristic all at once.”
“… Dahroug isn’t merely composing — he’s invoking something ancient and spiritual.”
“A truly exquisite piano composition, with striking virtuosity and precision… the marked, deliberately placed dissonances make the work so harmonically unique.”
“…Sherif Dahroug continues to push the boundaries of contemporary music, crafting sonic sanctuaries that resonate with infinite depth.”
“Sounds like a deeply ambitious and strikingly cohesive piece of work… rare to hear contemporary classical compositions that feel this conceptually complete, while still leaving space for mystery and interpretation.”
“The opening piano line is sensitive and romantic… almost cinematic, symbolizing the unpredictable nature of life itself. Despite its strong neoclassical foundation, the composition’s structure shows progressive influences… striking a balance between harmony and strong feelings, inviting the listener to enter the first light of dawn.”
“A truly exquisite piano composition, with striking virtuosity and precision… the marked, deliberately placed dissonances make the work so harmonically unique.”
“Dichotomy… is a sonic ritual — a vast inner temple where the echoes of the cosmos’s primordial birth resound… delivered with great sensitivity at the piano.”
Prizes & Awards
- Dichotomy — 2025 Winner — Best Composition, Apollo Global Music Awards - Athens, Greece
- Dichotomy — Platinum Absolute First Prize, European Symphony Architect Awards - London, UK
- Regards sur l’Horizon (including Sur le Fil de l’Aube) — The 2024 Global Music Awards - California, USA
- Regards sur l’Horizon (including Sur le Fil de l’Aube) — Diamond Prize, World Exceptional Musicians - London, UK
Full list of recognitions:
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About the Artist
Sherif Dahroug is a Paris-based concert artist, composer dedicating his life to the art of music. His creations unfold as a living architecture where ancient wisdom, poetic vision and rigorous technique converge. Originally trained as a naval architect, he carried the precision of engineering into his artistic path, transforming it into sound. His studies at the Schola Cantorum, the École Normale de Musique de Paris and the Royal Academy of Music in London placed him in the lineage of Celibidache, Messiaen and Boulanger, while his work has been honored with more than twenty-six international prizes, including the Diamond Prize for Composition, the Grand Prize of the New York International Music Competition and the Platinum Absolute First Prize of the European Symphony Architect Awards for Dichotomy.
Born in Alexandria and later settling in Paris on a scholarship, he bridges the heritage of Egypt with European craft in a singular voice that is both timeless and contemporary. Also an author and philosopher, he explores sound, symbolism and transcendence in writing as in performance. In every composition, Sherif Dahroug seeks a threshold where structure meets mystery and intellect meets intuition, inviting listeners into a space where the cosmic and the intimate resonate as one.
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