Rémi Geniet
| Date of birth: | 01.12.1992 | 
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| Instrument: | piano | |
| Nationality: | French | |
| Competition: | International Competition for Young Pianists in Memory of Vladimir Horowitz, 2010 | |
| Prize: | 3rd Prize | |
| Contact: | through the EMCY Office |
Rémi completed his secondary education at the age of 16, obtaining a 'baccalauréat' in science with the highest grade and was admitted with unanimity at the 'Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris' (CNSM) in Paris. Currently he is studying there with Brigitte Engerer and at the 'Ecole Normale de Musique' in Paris with Rena Shereshevskaya.
As a student in the class of Prof. Susan Campbell at the Montpellier Conservatoire, he performed Schumann's Concerto at the Opera House in Montpellier at the age of 14. He graduated with a 'médaille' in piano in 2008, with 'mention très bien à l'unanimité'. He also majored in chamber music with 'summa cum laude'. In the same year he entered the 'Ecole Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot' studying with Prof. Rena Shereshevskaya, a former professor of the well known Central School of Music for Gifted Children at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. There he was awarded the 'Diplôme Supérieur d'Exécution' in June 2010 and the 'Diplôme Supérieur de Concertiste' in April 2011. In 2009 he also began his piano studies at the CNSM with Prof. Brigitte Engerer.
Rémi has participated in several master classes with Tatyana Pikayzen, prize winner of the International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition 1985 in Warsaw and professor at the Manhattan School of Music, with Vera Gornostaeva, prominent professor at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, with François-René Duchâble, Giovanni Bellucci and Abdel Rahman El Bacha.
In addition to his participations in master classes Rémi can also look back on numerous successes at music competitions. He won 1st Prize at the Vulaines-sur-Seine International Piano Competition iin 2010, 1st Prize and Honour Prize as a soloist and 1st Prize in category chamber music with violinist Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux at the Leopold Bellan Foundation Piano Competition 2008 in Paris. In 2010 he became prize winner at the Adilia Alieva International piano competition in Gaillard (near Geneva), and received 2nd Prizes at the Concours International de Piano in Nice and at the Rencontre International de Piano in Paris. At the International Competition for Young Pianists in Memory of Vladimir Horowitz 2010 in Kiev he was awarded 3rd Prize, 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). In 2011 he received 1st prize at the Prix du Piano Interlaken Classics Bern and 3rd Prize at the International Telekom Beethoven Competition Bonn where he is at present the youngest of all prize winners ever.
Rémi is regularly invided to give recitals: in the south of France (Montpellier, Avignon, Nice...), in Switzerland (Academy of Music Tibor Varga), in Paris ('Salle Cortot', and by the association Jeunes Talents), in Lyon by the Mozarteum and in Chambéry by the Recontres artistiques de Bel-Air. He recently participated in different festivals, for example Pianoscope in Beauvais, Lisztomania in Châteauroux, Piano Folies du Touquet, Piano en Valois, Automne Musical in Nîmes, les Amis de la Musique in Vaison-la-Romaine, les Rendez-vous du Piano in Nice, and Bialystok (Poland). For the next season he has been invited to give concerts at the Louvre Auditorium in Paris, in Germany, in the festival Euriade in Netherlands, in the Interlaken Classics in Switzerland and in the Moments musicaux de la Baule, for the Journées Internationales Alfred Cortot and in the Festival Bach de Toul (all in France).
Rémi has appeared frequently as a duo with the violinist Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux. The duo was invited by René Koering to perform at the Montpellier Opéra and by Les Amis d'Alain Marinaro in Perpignan. Rémi has also worked in the class of chamber music under Marc Coppey, Michel Moraguès and Pierre-Laurent Aimard, in particular with cellist Honorine Schaeffer, pianist Ismaël Margain and clarinettist Raphaël Sévère. Violinist and former Yuri Bashmet's 'Soloists of Moscow' Alexandre Bendersky has called upon him many times for duo concerts. He has also accompanied some opera performances.
Rémi is the Zaleski Grant holder from 'Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris' for the years 2009-2010 and 2010-2011.
Find more information about Rémi, and hear and view many of his performances, at http://remi.geniet.free.fr/ and on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcwJ5oSyQ98 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ_luQbiLQI
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Repertoire
J. S. Bach, Partita No. 4 in D Major (BWV 828)
J. S. Bach, English Suite No. 1 in A Major (BWV 806)
J. S. Bach, English Suite No. 5 in E minor (BWV 810)
L. van Beethoven, Sonata No. 2 (Op. 2, No. 2)
L. van Beethoven, Sonata No. 9 (Op. 14, No. 1)
L. van Beethoven, Sonata No. 31 (Op. 110)
L. van Beethoven, Six Variations on an original theme in F Major (Op. 34)
D. Chostakovich, Prelude and Fugue in D flat Major
C. Debussy, L'isle joyeuse
J. Haydn, Sonata in C Major (Hob XVI: 50)
F. Liszt, Sonata in B minor
S. Prokofiev, Sonata No. 4 (Op. 29)
R. Schumann, Kreisleriana (Op. 16)
With orchestra
L. van Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor (Op. 37)
W. A. Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor (K. 466)
F. Mendelssohn, Piano Concerto in G minor (Op. 25)
S. Rachmaninov, Piano Concerto No. 3 (Op. 30)
R. Schumann, Piano Concerto in A minor (Op. 54)
