CONCERTS 2019-2020
Pene Pati, Tenor
Ronny Greenberg, Piano
NOTE NEW 2021 DATE!
Due to the Coronavirus, this recital has been rescheduled to:
Sunday, June 6, 2021
Memorial Hall
1225 Elm St
Cincinnati, OH 45202
In March 2019, this remarkable native of Samoa, raised and trained in New Zealand and Wales, absolutely dazzled a Matinée Musicale audience at Memorial Hall. Almost immediately there were requests to bring back the singer considered by many to be the next Pavarotti. He won first prize at the 2014 Montserrat Caballé International Arts Competition. He is a graduate of the Merola Opera Program at San Francisco Opera, where he earned praise for his 2017 debut as the Duke in Rigoletto. One of his Cincinnati encores was “O sole mio,” a number often performed with his tenor brother and baritone cousin in their regularly sold-out stadium concerts in New Zealand as Sol3 Mio, in the style of the Three Tenors.
Winner of the 2012 Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge ‘Bel Canto’ Award
“He sings with firm high notes and thrilling timbre. His Cincinnati performance “was mesmerizing.”
JANELLE GELFAND, CINCINNATI BUSINESS COURIER
“The fluency and brilliance of Pati’s singing, most notably, is a delight that never stales.”
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Ronny Greenberg, Piano
Ronny Greenberg has been heard in opera houses and concert halls around the world. Most recently he went on tour with Tenor Pene Pati in Italy and New Zealand performing in Milan, Florence, San Bonifacio, Auckland, Tauranga and Waikato. His other performance experiences include guest soloist appearances with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and concerts at the historical Steinway Hall, the Museum of Civilization in Ottawa, and the Schubert Hall at the Vienna Konzerthaus.
Mr. Greenberg is an active member of San Francisco Opera’s Music Staff where he serves as rehearsal pianist and vocal coach. Over the last four seasons he has worked on Two Women, The Barber of Seville, Die Zauberflöte, Carmen, Aida, Rigoletto, Turandot, La Traviata, Cavalleria Rusticana, I Pagliacci and Arabella. In 2019, he will be featured as harpsichordist for Handel’s Orlando and will return for two fall productions (season announcement in the New Year). Other companies he has collaborated with include Opera San Jose, Opera Parallèle, Townsend Opera and Yale Opera.
Mr. Greenberg has also served as guest pianist for the San Francisco Ballet and was featured on the stage of the War Memorial Opera House performing Valses Poeticos by Granados at their 2017 Season Opening Gala. Since then he has assisted on The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Frankenstein, and the Unbound festival. Other experiences include playing Schubert’s Impromptus Op.90 for the world premiere of James Sofranko’s Homing in SFDanceoworks’ Season 3 and playing for the San Francisco Opera Dance Corps.
Mr. Greenberg is in demand as an entertainer and has performed for the Human Rights Watch, Bread Project, Salesforce, David Gockley Celebration Dinner, and several private events. Equally passionate about chamber music, he and violinist Elizabeth Castro Abrams regularly perform as Duo Ladino. While the duo focuses on Spanish and Gypsy music, they always seek to engage their audience with colorful and enticing repertoire, all while serving fundraising efforts for homelessness and women’s rights organizations.
PROGRAM
Coming soon.