Rémi Geniet - piano recital
© Jean-Baptiste Millot
Full
- Prices
- 25€ - 40€
- Date
- 19 December 2024 – 8:30pm
- Place
- Auditorium
- Hours
- 8.30 p.m.
Young pianist Rémi Geniet will perform a recital of works by his favourite composers: Scarlatti, Beethoven, Ravel and Prokofiev.
Awarded second prize at the 2013 Queen Elisabeth International Competition of Belgium at the age of 20 , the former prodigy studying under Brigitte Engerer at the Conservatoire de Paris has, since 2013, established himself as one of the most brilliant pianists of his generation. Rémi Geniet, modest and introspective, has received rave reviews from the international press for his “instrumentally intimidating, intellectually impressive and musically poignant” style (Diapason). Being particularly at ease in the Baroque repertoire, which he sculpts with his fingertips like a goldsmith, Mr Geniet also displays great command of the Romantic repertoire, such as with Beethoven’s majestic Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Major, Op. 101, and in tender, yet sharp pianism, as displayed in Prokofiev’s Sonata No 4, one of the Soviet composer’s most formidable.
Rémi Geniet
The youngest winner in the history of the International Beethoven Competition in Bonn, awarded second prize at the 2013 Queen Elisabeth International Competition of Belgium at the age of twenty, Rémi Geniet became a prize-winner of the Young Concert Artists in New York in 2015 and, in 2020, was awarded a career grant by the prestigious New York Salon de Virtuosi. Today, he has established himself as one of the most brilliant pianists of his generation.
Rémi Geniet performs internationally with major orchestras worldwide, such as the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Belgium National Orchestra, the Orchestre d’Auvergne, the Orchestre National de Lille, the Orchestre National d’Île-de-France, the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra. He regularly collaborates with renowned conductors, including Marin Alsop, Emmanuel Krivine, Okko Kamu, Edo de Waart, Thomas Sanderling, Alan Buribayev, Enrique Mazolla, Ernest Martinez Izquierdo, Jérémie Rhorer, Christian Arming, Robert Trevino, David Niemann, Roberto Forés Veses, Eduard Topchjan, Adrian Leaper and Pavel Gerstein.
Invited to the most important French venues and festivals, Mr Geniet performs recitals at the Auditorium du Louvre, Piano aux Jacobins, Piano à Lyon, La Roque d’Anthéron International Piano Festival, Festival de Radio France Occitanie Montpellier, La Folle Journée, La Grange de Meslay, Lille Piano(s) Festival... and opened both the “L’âme du Piano” series at the historic Salle Gaveau and the “New Generation Piano” series in the inaugural season of the Fondation Louis Vuitton to enormous critical acclaim.
Outside France, he performs at Carnegie Hall (Zankel Hall), the Morgan Library, Munich Gasteig, NDR Hanover, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, as well as in Vienna, Geneva, Ghent, Brussels, Germany and Poland. Among the many prestigious international festivals that invite him are Verbier, Colmar, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Duszniki Chopin Piano Festival, Chopin Festival Marienbad, Saint Petersburg Arts Square International Winter Festival, La Folle Journée in Japan, Euriade Festival in the Netherlands, Montreal Bach Festival and Interlaken Classics Festival in Switzerland. In early 2016, he was invited to take part in Les Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad at the invitation of Renaud Capuçon, winning the Prix André Hoffmann.
A frequent guest artist in Asia, he performs with the KBS Symphony Orchestra, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, the Hyogo PAC Orchestra, the Kansai Philharmonic and the Hiroshima and Gunma Symphony Orchestras, as well as in recital at Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, at National Concert Hall in Taiwan, Kumho Art Hall in Seoul and La Folle Journee in Japan. During the 2019-2020 season, Mr Geniet performed concerts with the Orchestre National d’Ile-de-France, the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, the Orchestre de Besançon Victor-Hugo Franche-Comté and the Orchestre Pau-Pays de Béarn. He also gave recitals at the Salle Gaveau as part of the Concerts de Monsieur Croche series, as well as at the Radio France auditorium for the celebration of Beethoven’s 250th birthday. Mr Geniet was also invited to make his debut at the Camerata Salzburg, with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, as well as at the Salon Virtuosi in New York. He was scheduled to perform at the Rencontres Musicales d’Evian alongside Emmanuel Tjeknovarian, but these events were unfortunately cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
In the summer of 2020, Mr Geniet performed at the Chapelle de l’Ermitage de Font-Romeu, as well as at the Roque d’Anthéron International Festival and the Pianos Folies du Touquet Paris-Plage. In 2020-2021, Mr Geniet performed Beethoven’s Concerto No. 5 with the Nouvelle Europe Chamber Orchestra conducted by Nicolas Krauze, and also performed with the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire in November 2020. In chamber music, his partners are among the greatest artists of their generation – Alexandra Soumm, Aurélien Pascal, Augustin Dumay, Raphaël Sévère and Daniel Lozakovich, with whom he performed at the Salle Molière in Lyon and at the Festival de Pâques in Aix-en-Provence.
Mr Geniet has recorded an album dedicated entirely to Bach released by Mirare, which received a “Diapason d’Or de l’Année” in 2015. His second recording, dedicated to Beethoven and released in March 2017, was also hailed by the industry press. Mr Geniet studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris with Brigitte Engerer and at the École Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot under Rena Shereshevskaya. He also worked with Evgeni Koroliov in Hamburg and studied conducting with George Pehlivanian.
