Kevin Kenner
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Kevin Kenner in Międzyzdroje (2009)
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| Background information | |
| Born |
May 19, 1963 Coronado, California |
| Genres | Classical music |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, concert pianist |
| Instruments | Piano |
| Website | Official website |
| Notable instruments | |
| Piano | |
Kevin Kenner (born May 19, 1963 in Coronado, California) is an American concert pianist.
At the age of 17, Kenner participated in the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw and was awarded the 10th prize and a special prize from the jury called Honorable Mention. Ten years later, in 1990 he returned to Warsaw and achieved second place, (there was no first prize awarded that year) and the Polonaise Prize. Earlier that year he won the third prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Other awards include the International Terence Judd Award (London, 1990), The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (Fort Worth, Texas in 1989,) and the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition (Salt Lake City, Utah 1988).
Kenner has since performed as soloist with world class orchestras including the Hallé Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, the Warsaw Philharmonic, The Czech Philharmonic, the Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Brussels, the NHK Symphony Orchestra, and in the US with the principal orchestras of San Francisco, San Diego, Salt Lake City, Kansas City, New Jersey, Rochester, Baltimore, St. Paul and many others. He has been invited to work with many renowned conductors, including Sir Charles Groves, Sir Andrew Davis, Hans Vonk, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Kazimierz Kord, Jiri Belohlavek and Antoni Wit.
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