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Terese Genecco (pronounced “jeh-NECK-oh”) is from New York where she began performing on stage at the age of five. She earned tuition money for college during her high school years as an entertainer in local clubs and restaurants, accompanying herself on piano, guitar, and percussion.

Terese graduated from Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts with a BFA in Music Theater. She has studied voice, dance, music theory, composition, arrangement, and piano at such prestigious institutions as The Hochstein School of Music, Carnegie-Melon University, Penn State University, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, with Daniel Marek of the NY Metropolitan Opera, and with jazz greats, Wesla Whitfield and Mike Greensill.

Terese relocated to California in 2000 and made her Bay Area debut in the 2003 San Francisco Cabaret Competition where she won her (“debut”) category and received the Jo Carol Davidson “Entertainer of the Year” award in the final night of competition at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco. Since then, Terese has performed all around the Bay Area and in New York.

In October of 2005, Terese was selected to appear in “Cabaret Today” as the opening act in the Mabel Mercer Foundations’ Annual Cabaret Convention on October 19, 2005, held at the Frederick P. Rose Hall in the new Jazz@Lincoln Center complex on Broadway in New York City.

She also made her New York debut at The Encore in sold-out performances of “Drunk With Love: A Tribute to Frances Faye”, an homage to the career and performance style of that dynamic and unique 1940’s-50’s nightclub legend with her *little big band*, a nightclub version of her two-act solo creation which ran for five weeks in San Francisco at The New Conservatory Theatre Center in the summer of 2005.

Terese has also performed in solo shows “You’re My Thrill” at the Octavia Lounge and in “Somebody Loves Me” at The Empire Plush Room in The York Hotel in San Francisco and has performed in in multiple group and benefit performances throughout the area, including “Stormy Weather”, a benefit for the musicians effected by the September 2005 hurricanes, produced by Stu Smith and Tin Pan Alley Productions.

Terese has also been seen performing at the legendary Purple Onion, ODC Theater, COPIA and The Rainbow Room in Napa, The Wyndham Bel Age Hotel in Hollywood, The Larkspur Café Theater, The Zingari Lounge, Blakes at Boundary Oaks, The Buriel Clay Theater, Kelly’s of Alameda, Original Joe’s, Blackhawk Country Club, and The Capitol Club in San Jose, CA.

Terese’s debut recording is scheduled for release in the spring of 2006. For more information, please visit Terese’s Website at www.teresegenecco.com