Remi Geniet
“Instrumentally intimidating, intellectually astonishing and musically overwhelming. The most humane, beautiful, profound Opus 110 heard for a very long time”
A musician of a “dazzling and rare intelligence” (Le Devoir) known internationally for his brilliant career as a pianist since winning second prize at the 2013 Queen Elisabeth Competition, Rémi Geniet has always held a deep interest in the orchestral and lyric worlds. In recent years, he has become more intensively involved in orchestral conducting, and after being chosen in 2022 by Riccardo Muti to participate as a répétiteur in his Italian Opera Academy on Verdi’s Requiem, the Maestro reinvited him as a conductor for the following Academy on Bellini’s Norma.
Both his debut all-Bach CD, which received a “Diapason d’Or of the Year” in 2015, and his second release of four Beethoven sonatas, also on the Mirare label, were unanimously praised by the critics. In 2015, Rémi Geniet was awarded first prize at the prestigious Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York, and more recently the New York Salon de Virtuosi Career Development Grant, bringing him to prominence in North America. In 2016 he was invited to participate at Les Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad at the invitation of Renaud Capuçon, winning the Prix André Hoffmann.
Rémi Geniet opened both the “L’âme du Piano” series at the historical Salle Gaveau and the “New Generation” series in the inaugural season of the Fondation Louis Vuitton to enormous critical acclaim. In 2020, on the occasion of the celebration of Beethoven’s 250th birthday, he gave at the Auditorium de Radio France a particularly noted performance of the Diabelli Variations. A frequent guest artist in Asia, Rémi Geniet has performed in Suntory Hall with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra and gave a recital at the prestigious Yokohama Minato Mirai Hall’s “International Piano Concert” as part of the hall’s re-opening celebrations in 2022.
The 2025-2026 season is marked by his debut with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille, playing and conducting Mozart's Concerto No. 12, as well as performances at Salle Cortot in Paris, conducting Boulez's Le Marteau sans maître before returning for a recital at the invitation of Patrice Moracchini. In summer 2026, Rémi Geniet is invited to the Aspen Music Festival and School and the Paavo Järvi and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich Conductors’ Academy and, beginning next season, will take over as Artistic Director of the Sérénades en Baronnies Festival in Provence, France.
Rémi Geniet has appeared in recital and with orchestras at the Philharmonie de Paris, the Auditorium du Louvre, Carnegie Hall (Zankel Hall), the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Munich Gasteig, the NDR Hanover, Brussels Bozar and Flagey Studio 4, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, the Seoul Arts Center, the Taiwan National Concert Hall. Amongst the many international festivals that invite him are La Roque d’Anthéron, the Verbier Festival, the Saint Petersburg Arts Square International Winter Festival, the Casals Festival Puerto Rico, the Montreal Bach Festival, the Interlaken Classics Festival, Piano aux Jacobins, La Folle Journée, La Grange de Meslay, the Festival International de Colmar and the Festival de Radio France Occitanie Montpellier.
He performs internationally with orchestras including the Belgian National Orchestra, the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, the KBS Symphony Orchestra, the Kansai Philharmonic, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse and the Orchestre National d’Île-de-France under conductors such as Marin Alsop, Okko Kamu, Edo de Waart, Daniel Oren, Thomas Sanderling, Pascal Rophé, Jérémie Rhorer, Emmanuel Krivine, Eduard Topchjan, Dmitri Liss and Yoel Levi.
His chamber music partners include Augustin Dumay, Daniel Lozakovich, Aylen Pritchin, Alexandra Soumm, Aurélien Pascal, Raphaël Sévère… He also enjoys performing with singers, often accompanying the classes of world-renowned baritones Vladimir Chernov and Konrad Jarnot.
Rémi Geniet was a student of Brigitte Engerer at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, Rena Shereshevskaya at the École Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot and Evgeni Koroliov at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. He pursues conducting studies with Leonid Grin in Philadelphia and with Rüdiger Bohn at the Robert Schumann Musikhochschule in Düsseldorf.
