Jovanni-Rey Verceles de Pedro
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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 and has won all the major prizes at the Vienna Conservatory of Music during his study there. He has been a prizewinner in numerous national and international competitions in Canada, the United States, Spain, Austria and 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, Gerhard Geretschlaeger and Menahem Pressler.

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 was awarded the 2008 Isabelle Beatrice Bond Gold Medal for Performance Excellence upon completion of his Masters from Trinity College of Music where he studied with Yonty Solomon, Deniz Arman Gelenbe and Mikhail Kazakevich.

Jovanni is currently on the doctoral program at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama/City University London in the class of senior professor Joan Havill. His research area currently focuses on the piano works of Argentinean composer Luis Gianneo.
 

 

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Photography by Michael Anthony Hermogeno and Joel Crelencia