Olga Kern
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Olga Kern
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| Background information | |
| Born |
April 23, 1975 Moscow, Russia |
| Genres | Classical |
| Instruments | Piano |
| Labels | Harmonia Mundi |
| Website |
olgakerncompetition |
Olga Kern (Russian: Ольга Керн) (born April 23, 1975 Moscow) is a Russian-American classical pianist who now lives in New York. She was the first woman in over 30 years to receive the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Gold Medal in the Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. As of September 2017, Kern is part of the piano faculty of the major New York City conservatory, Manhattan School of Music.
Kern was born into a family of musicians with direct links to Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff. Her parents are both pianists, and she is related to the Russian socialite and memoirist Anna Petrovna Kern. She began studying piano at age five with Professor Evgeny Timakin at the Central Music School of Moscow and gave her first concert at age seven in the same city. She won her first international competition — the Concertino Praga Competition — at the age of 11 in the Czech Republic. At 17, she won first prize at the first Rachmaninoff International Piano Competition. While in school, she received an honorary scholarship from the President of Russia Boris Yeltsin.
Kern continued her studies at the Moscow Conservatory with Professor Sergei Dorensky and continued her postgraduate studies at the same school. She also studied with Professor Boris Petrushansky at the Accademia Pianistica “Incontri col Maestro” in Imola.
From 1989 to 1994, Kern held a scholarship with the “New Names” Foundation. Through them, she performed for Icelandic president Vigdís Finnbogadóttir and at the United Nations. In 1991, she performed for Mikhail Gorbachev and Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu as part of the “Wave 2000” festival.
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