His recital and orchestral appearances throughout Eastern and Western Europe, the USSR, and the United States have received praise by both critics and the public alike. He has performed with the Milwaukee Symphony, Belgian National Radio Orchestra, Moscow State Radio Orchestra and numerous others. His live and recorded performances have been broadcast on radio and television on four continents.

Cyrus Forough, a laureate of the Tchaikovsky International Competition, entered the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels at age nine as a student of Arthur Grumiaux. He later continued his studies with David Oistrakh at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory and Josef Gingold at Indiana University.

He has performed in the United States, Russia, the Middle East, and throughout Europe. As an artistic ambassador, he has appeared in recitals, as an orchestral soloist, and in Master Classes in the U.S., South America, and the Far East. His students are first prizewinners in the International Johansen Competition, the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, the Yehudi Menuhin, and Corpus Christi International Competitions. His former students are members of the Chicago Symphony, the Cleveland Symphony, the New World Symphony, the Milwaukee Symphony and the Houston Symphony.

Presently Mr. Forough teaches in summer camps such as the “Academie Internationale de Music de Montpellier” (France), the Madeline Island Music Camp, and at the Beverly Hills International Music Festival (Beverly Hills, California).

Cyrus Forough is also a professor of violin at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and at Roosevelt University’s (Chicago) College of Performing Arts.

For more information, please visit www.cyrusforough.com