He is also a pianist and music professor (teaching at the Cairo Conservatoire), and has composed score for several Egyptian films. Rageh Daoud was born in Cairo, November 1954. He began his musical education early, when he joined the Cairo Conservatoire at the age of nine, studying piano. Later he joined the class of Etore Puglisi at the higher stage. While continuing his piano studies with him, he also attended the composition class which the late Carnal Abdel-Rahim had founded in the Conservatoire, where he studied with him composition, the theory of traditional Arab modes and contemporary composition. In 1977 Rageh Daoud obtained his diploma in musical composition from the Conservatoire with honors. He was appointed assistant at the Composition Dept. of the Conservatoire since 1978.