Olga Kern (Piano) Olga Kern – a distant relative of Anna Kern – was born in a musical family close to the Tchaikovskys and Rakhmaninovs. Graduated from the Moscow State Concervatoire and completed her post-graduate studies under Professor Sergei Dorensky. Trained at the Accademia Pianistica Incontri in Imola (Italy) with Boris Petrushansky.
First appeared at an international competition aged eleven, and at seventeen won first prize at the International Rakhmaninov Pianists` Competition. She has won prizes at eleven international competitions, received the honorary Russian Presidential Grant and is a member of the Russian Academy of Arts.
In June 2001 Olga Kern became the first woman in thirty years to win the gold medal at the XI International van Cliburn Pianists` Competition.
Olga Kern has appeared at the Large Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire, Symphony Hall in Osaka, the Salzburg Festspielhaus, La Scala in Milan, Zurich`s Tonhalle, the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, the National Orchestra of Russia, the Moscow Philharmonic and orchestras of China, Cape Town, Belgrade, Warsaw and Los Angeles. Has performed with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra under Valery Gergiev at the Kennedy Center (Washington) and the Chicago Symphony under Christoph Eschenbach at the Ravinia Festival. Has recorded for Harmonia Mundi, discs including Tchaikovsky`s First Piano Concerto (Rochester Philharmonic under Eschenbach), and various other works by Balakiriev and Rakhmaninov
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