Samer Fanek Music

Samer Fanek is an award-winning Polish-Jordanian pianist, keyboardist, composer and producer of contemporary instrumental music.
His debut album, “Wishful Thinking”, charted nationally at #12 on the US New Age Billboard charts and #1 on three Amazon.com charts. It also received significant worldwide radio airplay, charting internationally at #2 on the Zone Music Reporter (ZMR) Top 100 Radio Airplay charts.
The album won silver medals in the Global Music Awards, received a nomination in the 2016 Hollywood Music in Media Awards (HMMA), and recently made the 59th Grammy® Awards first-round ballot in the Best New Age Album category.

Born on December 11, 1986 in Amman, Jordan and currently residing in the San Francisco Bay Area, his passion for music began early on and it has stayed with him ever since. In his teenage years, Samer taught himself how to play his favorite songs by ear on the piano. It wasn't long before he discovered music production software which granted him the opportunity to experiment with a multitude of instrument sounds and record music with them. Samer was then able to create and arrange songs without requiring to learn sheet music.
Later on, he was able to fully recreate instrumental arrangements of his favorite songs by ear and eventually went on to compose his own music.

Samer has a long time dream to create powerful, melodic and dramatic instrumental music that tells a story and has an enduring emotional impact. He also aspires to take his compositions from his bedroom studio to the world stage and perform it with talented musicians and orchestras throughout the globe.
Both self-taught and devoted to his craft, Samer's compositions blend the piano and orchestral instruments with the more contemporary, including synthesizers, rock and ethnic instruments. He cites Yanni and Nobuo Uematsu as his primary music influences, although his instrumental compositions sometimes overlap with the progressive rock and progressive metal genres, inspired by the likes of Muse and Dream Theater.

On July 22, 2016 Samer released his debut album, “Wishful Thinking”, featuring thirteen of his original instrumental music compositions which he composed, performed and produced in his bedroom studio.
Wishful Thinking received glowing reviews and debuted nationally at #12 on the US New Age Billboard charts and #6 on the iTunes New Age Music charts. It has also climbed to #1 on the Amazon.com Best Sellers in New Age, Hot New Releases in New Age and Movers and Shakers charts.
The album already won two silver medals in the Global Music Awards for Best Album and Creativity/Originality. It was also nominated for the 2016 Hollywood Music in Media Awards (HMMA) in the Contemporary Classical/Instrumental category and recently made the 59th Grammy® Awards first-round ballot in the Best New Age Album category.
The album composition “Freefall” won first place in the 18th Annual Great American Song Contest, with judges praising it for its “beautifully engaging melody and creatively devised structure.”

Wishful Thinking can be regularly heard on numerous FM and internet radio stations in the United States and internationally. The album peaked at #2 on the international Zone Music Reporter (ZMR) Top 100 Radio Airplay chart, the monthly aggregate chart which tracks worldwide radio airplay of albums in the new age, world music, and instrumental music genres. Radio programmers recently nominated Samer Fanek for the 13th Annual ZMR Music Awards for Best New Artist and Best Neo-Classical Album of 2016.