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Genaro’s performance videos are all live showcasing the immediacy and rich imperfection of performance more often erased in the recording studio. Within the recital hall something rare occurs where contact with a living artist in real time without screen mediation or filters - but rather raw, real and ravishing confrontation with our humanity channeled through the arts and musical culture can happen. This is truly an experience that can only happen in intimate concert settings and one that builds appreciation, listening skills, concentration and continued cultural practice for humanity. Individually we become richer and collectively; whole. Genaro brings unique style wrought from life experience on three continents to every performance, creating a powerful blend that is…unforgettable. Prepare to be swept away by the virtuosic skills, emotional depth, and sheer passion of Genaro as he performs some of the most iconic pieces in the history of music.
Rachmaninoff - Wild "Sorrow in Springtime" Live in Paris 2019
"SORROW IN SPRINGTIME" by Sergei RACHMANINOFF LIVE IN PARIS 2019 Rachmaninoff’s ravishing song, for Soprano and piano (opus 21 number 12), in transcription for solo piano by American virtuoso, Earl Wild. Live performance by Genaro Pereira January 2019 at the American Church of Paris, France.
“JARDINS SOUS LA PLUIE" by Claude DEBUSSY LIVE PERFORMANCE BY GENARO PEREIRA
From Debussy’s “Estampes” the listener is transported via traditional French nursery songs to a childhood dream where goblins and dryads spook in the woods. Live performance by Genaro Pereira at the Zimbabwe Academy of Music. Pereira’s talent and passion for propagating music in Zimbabwe are rarely matched.
The Latest Info
Genaro is working on a stage musical currently in the workshop stage.
Still coming up in 2023 Genaro will be on stage in a concert in aid of Ukraine …watch this space for more details. Boris Lyatoshynsky, the Ukrainian composer’s works will feature.
Genaro is reading Nikolai Medner’s works with particular enthusiasm as well as deep diving into the nationalist spirit of Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsodies.
Genaro’s research into Portuguese piano music is ongoing at this stage and we look forward to his next opportunity to publish his findings on Catherine de Braganca…
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About
Genaro
Currently Genaro is focusing composition project for the Broadway stage. Taking his cues from his talents, experience and research into the Baroque period and French culture and combining it with his flare and feeling for pop music and the Musical as a world wide phenomenon. He is collaborating with Roger Allers in this project. Roger is best known as the co-director of the “Lion King” animated feature.
Genaro was born in Zimbabwe but raised in neighboring South Africa. As a young man he recorded and performed the new South African National Anthem for the first time as part of a small multi-racial group in the presence of President Nelson Mandela and played for Mandela again at an altitude of 3149 meters (10331ft) setting the Guinness Book of Records for the world’s highest piano performance.
Genaro is an inter-disciplinary artist and working in film too, scoring his own and others’ work. He worked for five years out of Les Frigos an artist’s collective in the 13ème arrondissement in Paris where he was integral to the bohemian world of Paris sub-culture in varied disciplines and in which he was appreciated for being the sole Classical musician member. He studied orchestral conducting with Dominque Rouits at the Opera of Massy in Paris and composition with Peter Klaztow at the University of Cape Town. His vocal compositions were first performed by a vocal group for contemporary music that he co-founded. After extensive studies at the Ecole Normale of Music in Paris primarily under Paul Blacher, Genaro was appointed Assistant Choir Director at the prestigious Schola Cantorum in the Latin Quarter. He also regularly worked and performed with the orchestra and choir of Daniel Galvez, Flori Canti with Stefan Dobrev and the chamber choir, Fuga Libra. Genaro’s passion for vocal music shows itself in his dedication to creating original concert series and theatre pieces with opera singers at the Avignon Theatre Festival, L’Auguste Theater, Theatre de l’Ile St Louis in France; The Claregate College in England; in Ireland at The International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, and in Portugal at The Cultural Centre of Cascais, among others.
As a solo pianist he performs regularly on three continents though he has a special place in his heart for the Zimbabwe Academy of Music where in 2015 he was the first classical musician to perform in his native country in over three years. Genaro assists local students in finding their path to careers in music through his masterclasses and on an individual basis to further the study and ensure the future engagement with music as a profession in Zimbabwe. He was nominated to become Cultural Ambassador to Zimbabwe but still awaits the official ceremony to formalize this honor… In one of his most powerful roles Genaro performs musical therapy and for many years engaged directly with patients at the Broca Hospital in Paris where music was allowed to play its role as healer for people with Alzheimer’s and other conditions.
Genaro believes strongly in the reappraisal of Portuguese piano music. With the National Library of Portugal, delving into the music of the Baroque period brought to light many undiscovered gems now in Genaro’s unique repertoire. This was a time where Portugal was the absolute centre of the development of the piano and the very first pianos were made to be shipped to the royal court where the Queen, Catherine of Bragança was maybe one of the very first women composers of all time. Yet - almost no-one knows this…! Also from this inquiry Genaro has refocused musical attention on the music of the late-Romantic period, especially that of Óscar da Silva whose early death robbed Portugal of another composer of genius.
Since 2018 Genaro shares his time between Los Angeles, Paris, Lisbon, and Bulawayo and concertizes in these locales among others. He is dedicating himself primarily to composing in Los Angeles with his collaborator Roger Allers, cross-fertilizing his classical influences with his Broadway and lyrical sensibilities to create a new sound for the Broadway stage. Among the artists with whom Genaro collaborates are mAbuSeKi, The MontagsKlub, Felix Laband, Arturo Bandini Gallery, Emilija Skarnulyte, Francesco Panozzo, Rose Lowder, Ahmet Ortacdag, Thomas McDonell, Susanne Burstein, and Roger Allers.
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“Virtuoso pianist Genaro Pereira understands contrast. Coupling together an evening of several, two-piece musical vignettes, he has tapped into the full gamut of emotions elicited by the composers. Gentle Satie leading into J.S.B., dramatic Berio into ethereal Debussy, and challenging Schoenberg into Ludwig Van results in an extremely satisfying evening. What makes it all work is the unique pairing, along with a masterful craftsman who is totally in the moment while crossing these unusual musical bridges. Bravo!
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“In the way wines are paired with courses, each to provide either complementary support or bracing contrast, Genaro Pereira presented an evening of musical pairings.
Quirky, personal Satie against sublimely ordered Bach. Angular, analytic Schoenberg collapsing into the earthy weltzschmerz of Beethoven. By contrasting them, he also showed us their shared ecstasies. This was not just some tutorial, but a sensual immersion.
As through the windows the sunset melted into the indigos of evening, Genaro painted a deepening, dissolving liquid world of Debussy’s ‘Reflets dans l’Eau”, drawing together audience, sound, and light into a shared metamorphosis-a sea change, both rich and strange.
After one has been transformed, what is there left to say?
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“In 2017 Genaro collaborated with Thomas McDonell and the Arturo Bandini Gallery in Los Angeles putting together the first issue of a new audio magazine, BLOW OUT. The magazine included new original material by Genaro and an eclectic group (from conceptual sound artist Mungo Thompson to pioneering punk musician David Yow to voice actress Mae Whitman...)
In Genaro’s contribution he explores the inter-sexuality of three fascinating composers and their relationship to women and thus to themselves through the use of the piano, vocal range, and written textures. John Field, for instance, a notorious alcoholic, chose to live in Saint Petersburg Russia where he invented the Nocturne as a form with its sinuous exposed melodic line. The essential style is that of a single singing line over a simple accompaniment to which Chopin was often to add a contrasting faster middle section again showing his dramatic or exhibitionistic side (often in conflict with his introverted side).
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“J’ai été très intéressé et conquis par le programme défendu par Genaro Pereira
Et c’est vrai qu’en l’écoutant, on finissait par trouver à ce programme une vraie cohérence, même si elle était impalpable, si elle relevait davantage de l’ambiance soigneusement entretenue par le travail pianistique de Genaro. Avec, de plus, une vraie originalité, une vraie curiosité de sa part, pour aboutir à l’avant-dernière sonate de Beethoven, pas forcément une des plus longues mais sûrement une des plus denses.
Deux pièces rares de Luciano Berio, montraient un beau sens du piano contemporain pendant que la longue pièce de Godowsky, se signalait par l’élégance avec laquelle Genaro n’en rajoutait pas dans l’exotisme. Le Debussy, était d’une juste poésie, liquide et mouvante. Il y eut enfin cette 31e sonate de Beethoven, point d’orgue à tout ce qui précédait. L’étrangeté de sa construction nécessite d’y avoir des doigts et une tête qui les contrôle.
C’est un bonheur pour nous que le pianiste rêve un peu depuis son clavier. Genaro Pereira met dans cette sonate de la puissance et mène la grande fugue de la fin à la victoire sonore et stylistique. Je l’avais déjà entendu dans la “Fantaisie chorale” du même Beethoven. Il est bien de trouver chez un jeune pianiste à la fois l’ambition, la curiosité, et les moyens qui les permettent”
Animateur de télévision “Des chiffres et des lettres”, écrivain français, critique de la musique.
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