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 with 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 in 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 several 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 both 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 Senior 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 and 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 was invited by the 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 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. As a soloist, he appeared with orchestras in Brazil, Europa, and Asia.