Olga Kern
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| Olga Kern | |
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 A CD recording of Kern's performances in the Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
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| Born | April 23, 1975 |
| Genre(s) | Classical |
| Instrument(s) | Piano |
| Label(s) | Harmonia Mundi |
Olga Kern (Russian: Ольга Керн; born April 23, 1975) is a Russian classical pianist. She was born into a family of musicians with ties to Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, and began studying piano with Evgeny Timakin at the Central Music School of Moscow when she was five.[1] Kern later continued with Sergei Dorensky at the Moscow Conservatory, where she also pursued her postgraduate studies. Kern also took instruction from Boris Petrushansky in Italy. She currently resides in Moscow with her son Vladislav.
[edit] Awards and titles
Kern won her first international competition at the age of eleven[2], and she has achieved first prize in others since then, including the first Rachmaninoff International Piano Competition at seventeen. She is a laureate of eleven international competitions, a recipient of an honorary scholarship from the President of Russia, and part of Russia's International Academy of Arts.[1] In June 2001, she became the first woman in over thirty years to receive the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Gold Medal in the Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, tying for first with Stanislav Ioudenitch of Uzbekistan.[3]
[edit] Performing and recording career
Kern has performed in such locations as the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Symphony Hall in Osaka, La Scala, Salle Cortot in Paris, and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.[1] She has also performed as a soloist with the Bolshoi Theater, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, St. Petersburg Symphony, Russian National Orchestra, China Symphony, Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra, Anchorage Symphony Orchestra, Torino Symphony, Bear Valley Music Festival Symphony, and Cape Town Symphony Orchestra.[1] Kern records exclusively for Harmonia Mundi USA. She is a Yamaha Artist.
