Francisco was born in 1995 in Porto (Portugal) and started his musical studies at the age of 11 years old. Berény performed in several places in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Germany and Austria: many music schools in Porto, Aveiro, Ovar, Albergaria, Viseu, Maia, Matosinhos, Jobra and Ovar. Francisco gave concerts in the Portugal Assembly, Casa da Música (sala Suggia), in Granada (Spain) and a tour in Italy and he has participated in music festivals in internationally where performed in several small halls as a soloist and in music chamber with cello, guitar ensemble, piano, guitar trio and with orchestra. Furthermore, Francisco has been making contact with other teachers in Masterclasses such as Michel Sadanovsky, Dejan Ivannovic, Javier Somoza, Margarita Escarpa, Pedro Rodrigues, Judicael Perroy, Marco Tamayo, Michalis Kontaxakis, Daniel Wolf, Hubert Kappel, Zoran Dukic, Joaquin Clerch, Laura Young, Ricardo Gallen and Marcin Dylla. In addition, Francisco has participated in some competitions where he obtained prizes, as the first prize in 2019 on the Intertnational competition of Fundão. Berény concluded the bachelor’s degree in performance and the Teaching master of classical guitar in the University of Aveiro (Portugal) with Pedro Rodrigues and finished with the highest grade the Master’s in performance in the class of Laura Young on the Mozarteum University in Salzburg where he lived for three years. In the year 2022 and 2023 Francisco organized and curated the guitar festival “Teoria das 6 cordas” as well some concerts seasons in collaboration with the City Hall and launched the his first CD “Salzbrug Recital” with the label KNS. “Auffallend und besonders sympathisch war freilich, dass der junge Künstler keineswegs die virtuosen Seiten seiner Kunst hervorkehrte, sondern konsequent bei einer verhaltenen und subtilen, aber jederzeit souveränen Darbietungsweise verblieb.
Das kam den anderen Werken des Programms sehr zugute.” Schreier, Josef -December 2019 Aachener Zeitung

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