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June 3, 2013

Rémi Geniet

Rémi Geniet has won the second Prize at the Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition Brussels 2013. Rémi, who benefited from the last teaching years of the late Brigitte Engerer, is at the present time the youngest prize winner of the Bonn International Beethoven competition, having won the third prize during the 2011 edition.

While studying at the Montpellier Conservatory (class of Prof. Susan Campbell and Mireille Michaud), he performed Schumann's Concerto at Montpellier's Opera House at the age of 14. He then entered the "Ecole Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot" in 2008 in the class of Rena Shereshevskaya. He completed his secondary education at 16, obtaining a Baccalaureat in Science at the highest grade, and was admitted at the Paris CNSM with unanimity. Meanwhile he continued his studies at the "Ecole Normale", where he was awarded the the "Dipôme Supérieur de Concertiste" in April 2011 with unanimity and the jury's utmost praise.  Rémi also attended master classes with Vera Gornostaeva, with Tatyana Pikayzen, with Abdel Rahman El Bacha, with François-René Duchâble, with Giovanni Bellucci, and with Henri Barda.

In 2011, he won the 1st prize at the Prix du Piano Interlaken Classics in Bern, and is also a prize winner for many other competitions like the International Horowitz Competition in Kiev - 2010 (with the Special Prize for the Performance of a piece from Vladimir Horowitz's repertoire, the Marian Rybicki Prize, and the Prize of the Frédéric Chopin University of Music (Poland)), 2010 Vulaines-sur-Seine international piano competition(first prize winner in the virtuosity highest group, with unanimity and the jury's utmost praise), Leopold Bellan foundation piano competition in Paris (honours with unanimity and the jury's utmost praise at the "excellence" highest level), Adilia Alieva International piano competition, "Rencontre Internationale de Piano de Paris" supported by the Automobile Club de France and "Grand Prix" at the Nice - Côte d'Azur International Piano Competition.

Rémi played during the festivals Pianos Folies du Touquet, Piano en Valois, Pianoscope in Beauvais, Lisztomanias in Châteauroux, at the Bach Festival in Toul, during the Moments musicaux de la Baule, the Journées Internationales Alfred Cortot, the Automne Musical in Nîmes , for les Amis de la Musique in Vaison-la-Romaine, the Rendez-vous du piano in Nice and the Rencontres Artistiques de Bel-Air, Chambéry. He gave recitals in Poland, in Germany, in Switzerland for the festival Interlaken Classics, in the Netherlands for the Euriade festival, and in Moscow. He has been regularly invited at the salle Cortot by Marian Rybicki, artistic director of the Animato organization, also in Paris by the Jeunes Talents organization, and often gives recitals in southern France (Mozarteum Lyon, Montpellier, Avignon and Nice. For the next seasons, Rémi will be playing in Germany and France, in particular at the Louvre auditorium.

Rémi Geniet has performed with the following orchestra : National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Orchestre de Cannes PACA, Orchestre d'Ile de France, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, with such conductors as Volodymyr Sirenko, Philippe Bender, Stephan Blunier, Adrian Leaper. As for chamber music, the duo formed with the violinist Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux was invited to perform by René Koering at the Montpellier Opéra, and by les amis d'Alain Marinaro in Perpignan. Rémi also worked in the classes of Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Marc Coppey and Michel Moraguès at the CNSM. Alexandre Bendersky, violinist, Yuri Bashmet's "Soloists of Moscow" - called upon him many times for duo concerts when he was still very young. He also accompanied some Opera performances. Rémi received a grant from the Zaleski Foundation for studies at  the "Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris" for the years 2009-2010 and 2010-2011.