El Bacha won the Concours Reine Elisabeth de Belgique international music competition by a unanimous judgment at the age of 19. His recording in 1983, “Early Works” by Sergei Prokofiev won the Grand Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros. He was recently awarded the Médaille de l’Ordre du Mérite by the president of the Lebanese Republic, the highest distinction of his native country.
