CURRICULUM VITAE

Paulo Zereu

Educational background and Degrees:

 Ph.D., eLearning Methodology Graduate School of Advanced Technology Management,

Assumption University, Thailand

 Ph.D., Music and Musicology, New Bulgarian University in Sofia, Bulgaria

 Doctor of Fine and Applied Arts (DFA), Piano Performance, Chulalongkorn University,
Thailand

 Doctor of Music Pedagogy, Mainz University, Germany

 Master’s Degree, Piano Performance, Cologne University, Germany

 Post-Graduation, Piano Performance, Karlsruhe University, Germany

 Post-Graduation, Piano Performance, Academy of Music, Cracow, Poland

 Diploma, History and Polish Language, Jagielonsky University, Cracow, Poland

 Bachelor of Music, Piano Performance, Rio Grande do Sul State University, Brazil

 Diploma, Accounting, Rio Grande do Sul School of the Federative Republic of Brazil

PAULO ZEREU was born in Porto Alegre (Brazil). He received his first piano tuition from
his mother, Prof. Déa Zereu. After he left high school, Paulo Zereu studied with Prof. Lucila di
Primio Conceição at the Rio Grande do Sul State University, Institute of Arts and graduated as a
Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance. Subsequently, he became a professor of piano at the
same university.

He won a scholarship from the Polish government to pursue post-graduate studies in Piano
Performance at the Kraków Academy of Music (Poland). Here Prof. Ewa Bukojemska and Prof.
Jerzy Tosik Warszawiak were his teachers. He also attended diploma courses in Polish Language
and History at the University Jagielonski, Cracow in Poland. Paulo Zereu won a number of awards
and graduated with a diploma.
 From 1990, he lived in Karlsruhe (Germany). He studied Post-Graduate in Piano
Performance at the Karlsruhe University of Music with Prof. André Boainain and, from 1994 with
Prof. Josef Anton Scherrer at the Cologne University of Music, Wuppertal branch, where he
graduated with the “Künstlerische Abschlussprüfung”, Master’s Degree in Piano Performance.
Then, he studied “Music Pedagogy” at the “Akademie für MusikPädagogik” in Mainz, Germany.

Paulo Zereu earned a Doctor of Fine and Applied Arts degree in Piano Performance at the
Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, and a Ph.D. degree in Music and Musicology
Arts at the New Bulgarian University in Sofia, Bulgaria. Furthermore, Paulo Zereu obtained also
a Ph.D. degree in eLearning Methodology at the Graduate School of Business and Advanced
Technology Management Assumption University of Thailand.

Paulo Zereu participated in master classes with internationally distinguished teachers and
artists, among them Edith Picht-Axenfeld (Germany), Andrzej Jasinski (Poland), Rudolf Kehrer
(Russia), Martin Widmaier (Germany) and Kristian Zimerman (Poland).

He has given several courses in Piano Interpretation, Technique and Performance in Brazil,
Europe, and Asia. In Brazil and Europe, he won several prizes in National and International Piano
Competitions.

Paulo Zereu has been living in Bangkok, Thailand since 2005. In that same year, he became
a Lecturer and Piano Coordinator at the Department of Music Performance at Assumption
University. Currently, Paulo Zereu is a Lecturer at Louis Nobiron School of Music, Assumption
University. He has been invited to support the cultural activities of the Brazilian Embassy for a
period of one year in the quality of Resident Artist. For a period of three years, Paulo Zereu was a
Resident Artist collaborator, Musical Advisor of the Cultural Services of the Portuguese Embassy
in Bangkok, Thailand.

Paulo Zereu has recorded for Radio National of Madrid, “Spanish Composers”.
Furthermore, in 2007 he has been invited by Portuguese and Brazilian Embassies to record a Piano
Music album, “Portuguese and Brazilian Composers”. In addition, this project of both Embassies
in collaboration with Assumption University coordinated for the first time in Asia.

In 2010 Paulo Zereu recorded for the Embassy of Brazil in New Delhi, India, the Piano
Music album “Brazilian Composers “also in collaboration also with Assumption University of
Thailand. Paulo Zereu is a member of the “Brazilian Citizens Council of Bangkok”, an advisory
board to the Consular Section of the Brazilian Embassy in Bangkok.

Paulo Zereu has collaborated with internationally distinguished conductors and artists such
as Martin Widmaier (Germany), Lourdes Ramirez (Spain), Nat Yontararak (Thailand), Tomasz
Tomaszewski (Poland), Vietrio (Thailand), Eri Nakagawa (Japan), Hong Fu (China), Peter
Shannon (Ireland), Akkrawat Paye Srinarong (Thailand), Tiago Neto (Portugal), Arlindo Teixera
(Brazil), Borislava Taneva (Bulgaria), Petko Dimitrov (Bulgaria), Cinthia Alireti (Brazil), Antonio
Borges-Cunha (Brazil), among others. As a soloist, he appeared with orchestras in Brazil, Europa,
and Asia.