GéNIA – Things I Never Told You
Concert pianist and composer GéNIA shares the music and untold stories behind her life, pairing classical favourites, minimalism and jazz influences with her own compositions in an intimate evening of solo piano and personal revelations.
Some Musical. Some Personal. Some Unexplainable.
What lies behind the life of a concert pianist?
In Things I Never Told You, pianist and composer GéNIA brings together solo piano and personal storytelling, sharing the music and unexpected experiences that have shaped her life, on stage and beyond.
The programme travels from Scarlatti, Mozart, Debussy and Rachmaninoff to the hypnotic minimalism of Philip Glass, Karen Tanaka and Somei Satoh, before exploring the jazz-infused music of Gershwin and Fazıl Say. Alongside these works, GéNIA performs her own neoclassical compositions, heard on Classic FM and in television productions including Killing Eve and The Day of the Jackal.
Between the pieces come stories her audiences have never heard before: some musical, some personal, some difficult to explain. Together, they reveal a life far less conventional than the polished world of the concert platform might suggest.
Join GéNIA at Toulouse Lautrec for an intimate evening of piano music, untold stories and a few surprises.
About GéNIA
GéNIA is a Ukrainian-born British concert pianist and composer whose work spans classical music, contemporary composition, jazz, electronics and wellbeing.
Taught by her great-grandmother Regina Horowitz, elder sister of Vladimir Horowitz, GéNIA went on to study at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. She has performed internationally and at leading London venues including Wigmore Hall, the Barbican and Southbank Centre.
Her recordings have been released through Nonclassical, Black Box, Universal and her own label, GéNIA MUSIC. Her compositions feature in Killing Eve, The Day of the Jackal and Cold Feet, with broadcasts on Classic FM and BBC radio. Her collaborators include the Brodsky Quartet, composers Gabriel Prokofiev and Howard Skempton, and jazz saxophonists Andy Sheppard and Jason Yarde.
GéNIA also created Piano-Yoga®, combining piano technique with yoga, movement, breathing and wellbeing. She is the founder of Support Kharkiv Foundation, supporting people in her native city in Ukraine, with a particular focus on children.
