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Master Craftsman Luis Rojas formally of Steinway and Sons and technician Dennis Pereca

Master Craftsman Luis Rojas formally of Steinway and Sons and technician Dennis Pereca

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.

 

 
The Pianotek Company
257 Broadway Huntington Station, NY 11746
Phone: (631) 547-1078