Jovanni-Rey Verceles de Pedro

Jovanni-Rey Verceles de Pedro
Pianist

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Filipino-American pianist Jovanni-Rey V. de Pedro has been called a “performer of musical depth and exciting virtuosity.” Since his debut in 1997, Jovanni’s playing has been heard in churches and concert venues throughout the United States, Canada, England, the Czech Republic, Austria, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and the Philippines - recently performing Brahms' First Piano Concerto with the UST Symhony in Manila and Mozart’s Concerto K. 466 with the Vienna Residenz Orchester.

Born into a family of musicians, Jovanni studied piano at the age of three with his father, and later attended the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts where he studied piano and conducting. His choirs have won competitions in the United States and he was recently invited to give a choral workshop with the Cebu Chamber Singers, who went on to win the Asian Choral Games in Jakarta last fall.

As a pianist, Jovanni has received scholarships from many distinguished organizations such as the Young Musicians Foundation in Los Angeles and has won all the major prizes at the Vienna Conservatory of Music such as the 2003 Boesendorfer Stipendium, the overall prize of the Fidelio Competition given by the City of Vienna’s Cultural Affairs Department, and the 2007 Rotary Club Graben Stipendium. Jovanni has been a prizewinner in numerous national and international competitions; First place - 2000 United States Open Music Competition, First Place - 2002 International Pacific Piano Competition in Canada, Second Place - 2003 Ibiza International Piano Competition in Spain and Second Place in the 2007 Beethoven Society of Europe’s Intercollegiate Piano Competition in England.

Jovanni has received invaluable guidance from eminent artists including Igor Kipnis, Robert Lehrbaumer, John Perry, Aries Caces, Pierre Laurent-Aimard, Rudolf Buchbinder, Ronan O'Hora, Martino Tirimo, Bryce Morrison, Boris Berman, Robert Ward and Gerhard Geretschlaeger.

With a scholarship from the ASCAP/Leiber and Stoller Foundations, Jovanni studied six years in Vienna, completing his Artists Diploma in 2007 with high distinction. He is currently studying with Yonty Solomon, Deniz Arman Gelenbe and Mikhail Kazakevich at Trinity College of Music in London, where he is anticipated to receive his Masters of Music this fall.

Maintained by Jonathan Hawkins
Photography by Michael Anthony Hermogeno and Joel Crelencia