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Sherif Dahroug is a Paris-based composer, concert artist, author, and founder of Lyre de Mercure — Music, Arts & Innovation. His practice encompasses composition, performance, recording, publishing, and artistic research, with interdisciplinary projects bringing music into dialogue with architecture, philosophy, literature, visual arts, and innovation. Before dedicating himself entirely to music in 2009, he trained and worked as a Naval Architect, an experience that continues to inform his structural and spatial approach to musical creation.

At the Schola Cantorum de Paris, Dahroug was awarded the Diplôme de Concert by unanimous decision, following the Diplôme de Virtuosité, marking the culminating levels of his advanced artistic training. He also holds a Doctorate in Musical Arts (DMA) in Performance, a Master of Music in Composition and Musicology, and a Master of Arts in Chamber Music from the institution’s Haute École de Musique. At the École Normale de Musique de Paris, he earned the Diplôme d’Harmonie et d’Analyse Musicale, while his broader musical formation includes studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He studied with distinguished musicians and pedagogues whose lineages extend through figures including Sergiu Celibidache, Nadia Boulanger, and Olivier Messiaen.

The recipient of more than forty international awards in both composition and performance, he has been recognized by leading competitions and institutions across Europe and the United States, including Vienna, London, Moscow, New York, California, Berlin, and Athens. With more than twenty years of professional concert activity, he has performed extensively throughout Europe, particularly in France, Switzerland, and Italy, appearing in distinguished venues such as the Salle Cortot in Paris, the Vienna Musikverein, and the historic Teatro Paganini, Genoa.

Dahroug is a recipient of the Médaille de Platine, the highest distinction of the Société Académique Arts–Sciences–Lettres, awarded under the High Patronage of the President of the French Republic in recognition of his contribution to the arts.