MASSIMILIANO GÉNOT

Massimiliano Génot lives in Turin, where he gained his piano diploma at the age of sixteen, under Gianni Sartorio. He also took a diploma in composition under the tuition of Riccardo Piacentini .
After a first specialisation course with Aldo Ciccolini , he was admitted to the Higher Conservatoire in Geneva, where he continued his studies under Maria Tipo and gained the Premier Prix de Virtuosité, with a distinction.
He completed his training by following master classes at the Imola Academy, in particular the piano courses of Lazar Berman and those in performance history and theory under Piero Rattalino, with whom he also began researches into the historical development of piano technique. These studies led to the first ever recording of Carl Czerny’s School of Velocity op. 299 using the original metronome markings, paired with the Etudes op. 6 by Franz Liszt .
Génot has gained prizes in numerous Italian and international competitions, including the Ferruccio Busoni Competition in Bolzano, He has given concert performances at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Settembre Musica Festival and the Teatro Regio in Turin, Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan, the Sagra musicale Malatestiana , the Musikhalle in Hamburg, the Konzertsaal in Freiburg, the Chopin Museum in Warsaw, the Musashino Foundation in Tokio, the Oficina de Música de Curitiba workshop in Brazil, etc. He has also played with the “Arturo Toscanini” Symphony Orchestra of Parma, the Orchestra of the Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Festival of Bergamo and Brescia, etc.
Since 1995 Génot has been involved with the research work of pianist and restorer Flavio Ponzi into the modern performing potential of original instruments from the Romantic period. The two musicians played Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, using instruments which belonged to the composer himself, and a programme of Romantic transcriptions at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome.
In 1999 Génot performed his transcription of Das Rheingold at the Richard Wagner Association of Venice, which awarded him a study grant to enable him to attend the Bayreuth Festival. A new CD came out recently, recorded in Bayreuth on the Wagner’s piano of Villa Wahnfried, with some unpublished transcriptions from Wagner and Verdi. In Bayreuth he has also recorded with the baritone Franz Mazura the melologues of Franz Liszt .
He is also active in the lieder and opera repertoire, accompanying the soprano Anja Kampe, and plays iwith his sister Alessandra, a violinist.