Highlights
Pianist, Singer and Conductor Enrique Bernardo graduated from
Duquesne University Artist Diploma Program on May 2008. He
plans to stay in Pittsburgh at least one more year and is trying to
figure out what to do next.
Enrique is the Music Director of the Hebron Presbyterian Choir. He
is also the Music Director of the Latin American Choir of
Pittsburgh, an amateur group whose main goal is to present
latin-american choral music to audiences in Pennsylvania.
While at Duquesne he studied piano with David Allen Wehr and
voice with Guenko Guechev and Xiu Ru. He has taken part in the
productions of Marriage of Figaro as Don Curzio and Don Basilio,
Mavra as Mavra (Stravinsky one act opera) and as Don Ottavio in
the opera Don Giovanni.
The year of 2007 marks also Enrique's debut as a professional
opera singer singing the role of Don Curzio and covering the role of
Don Basilio in the opera Marriage of Figaro for Opera Theatre of
Pittsburgh.
Since 2007 he has been taking part in the productions of Die
Fledermaus, Lost in the Stars (Kurt Weill) from Opera Theatre of
Pittsburgh, and in the production of Aida from Pittsburgh Opera as
an chorus singer.
2008-2009 season finds Enrique Bernardo as La Potesta, one of the
main roles in the neglected opera "La Finta Gardiniera" by Wolgang
Amadeus Mozart to be performed with Duquesne Opera during the
Spring of 2009. He will working as well as a rehearsal pianist for
Opera Theatre of Pittsburgh in the productions of Djamileh (one-act
opera by Bizet), Porgy and Bess (Gershwin) and Gianni Schichi
(Puccini). He will take part in the production Die Fledermaus
(Strauss) as part of the chorus.
He is planning the re-release of a Cd featuring him at the piano with
works of Mozart, Liszt, Chopin and Ravel, works that he recorded
live while attending the College of Charleston.
He is also planning to produce a Cd which is a live recital at the
Simmons Center in Charleston, SC during the fall of 2007. This Cd
will feature Beethoven 32 Variations in C minor, the four Chopin
impromptus, Ginastera Sonata N.1 Op. 22 and "Pregon y Danza" a
piece by one of the most famous composers in his native Peru.
Other plans he hopes to fullfill this summer are the recording of a
new Cd with Bach French Suite in G major; Chopin set of etudes
op. 10; Beethoven Sonata op. 101; Ginastera monumental Second
Sonata; and the poetic and not so known Three Preludes Set "La
Siesta" by Argentinian XX Century composer Carlos Guastavino.