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Mr. Luis Rojas, formally of Steinway & Sons has also been in demand by many other piano dealers in NYC including Klavier House, Beethoven and Faust Harrison Pianos. So happy he’s with us for the long term.
Mr. Dennis Pereca began his career with the piano at the age of seven studying popular and classical piano, inspired by composers like Copland, Mozart, Chopin, Grieg, Joplin, and Gershwin among others. By the time he was sixteen, he was signed to Warner Bros/Reprise Records, Capital Records, and ultimately to the prestigious William Morris Agency in New York City. Long before American Idol there was The American Songwriters Festival, a national songwriters competition where Mr. Pereca was recognized as a semi-finalist out of 80,000+ song entries in a professional category.
He has appeared or worked with world-renowned artists
and groups such as …
The Bee Gees
Melanie
Sha Na Na
Livingston Taylor
Doc Watson
Eric Weisberg
John Hartford
John McFee (Doobie Brothers)
Steppenwolf
Odetta
Janey and Dennis
Janis Ian
Tom Waits
John Hammond Jr.
Elephant's Memory
Janey Street
Eric Weisberg
Steve Gadd
Arlen Roth
Hugh McCracken
Richie Havens
Eric Anderson
Max Weinberg
Mr. Pereca has performed in major venues and arenas like:
Carnegie Recital Hall
The Fillmore East
The Montreal Forum
The Chicago Auditorium
The Schaffer and Dr. Pepper
Music Festivals in Central Park NY
The Troubadour in Los Angeles
The Capitol Theater in New Jersey
Westbury Music Fair in Long Island, NY
Dennis has worked with world-renowned arrangers and producers such as Jerry Corbitt of the Youngbloods, Grammy award-winning producer and arranger Fred Mollin (Sometimes When We Touch), and Grammy award-winning musical arranger Ron Frangipani for John Lennon and Yoko Ono. His own music and arrangements have been performed by Donna Fargo, Melanie, Janis Ian, including arrangements and vocals composed for her Grammy award-winning album Between the Lines. His compositions have also been performed on the hit ABC television series Eight is Enough.
Always fascinated with pianos and how they actually worked, he began to study piano restoration under European master technician, the late Kalman Dietrich of Dietrich Pianos in New York City. He established The Pianotek Company in 1979, with the intention to specifically cater from the novice to the professional pianist seeking not only great sound and performance but excellent value.