About
YAMAHA
OLGA KERN
Yamaha Artist

About

Olga Kern was an absolute whiz at the piano...
The New York Times

Olga Kern, the striking young Russian Gold Medal winner of the 2001 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition - whose performance of the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 made her the first woman to achieve this distinction in over 30 years - made her New York City debut in Carnegie's Zankel Hall in May, 2004. Eleven days later she returned to New York to play at Carnegie again, this time on the stage of the Isaac Stern Auditorium at the invitation of Carnegie Hall.

Ms. Kern is a magnetic performer with one of the most prodigious piano techniques of any young pianist. This season, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Van Cliburn Foundation will honor Ms. Kern’s Cliburn victory 10 years ago with a co-presentation of her talents in March and April of 2011.

Also this season, Olga will perform with the symphonies of Detroit, Anchorage, Nashville, Dallas, Virginia, St. Louis, Rochester, Pittsburgh, Madison, Johnson City, Syracuse and Colorado. She has also been invited to perform at Longwood Gardens, the Sanibel Music Festival, the Winter Park Bach Festival, the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, and Drake University. In January 2012 Olga will perform during a special North American recital tour with violinist Vladimir Spivakov, their first outside of Europe

Schedule 2012

9/9Warsaw Philharmonic, Verona, conductor Michal Dworzynski, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3
9/10Warsaw Philharmonic, Verona, conductor Michal Dworzynski, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3
9/11Warsaw Philharmonic, Ascona/Locarno, conductor Michal Dworzynski, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3
9/20-22Nashville Symphony, Nashville, conductor Giancarlo Guerrero, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3
9/27Waco Symphony Orchestra, Waco, conductor Stephen Heyde, Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 1
10/5-7Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh, conductor Leonard Slatkin, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3
10/19-21Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Detroit, conductor Leonard Slatkin, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3
10/28(Recital), St. Louis
11/1(Recital), Dallas
11/3(Recital in association with the Kern Foundation "Aspiration"), Denver
11/16The Figueroa Music and Arts Project Symhony Orchestra, Albuquergue, New Mexico, conductor Guillermo Figueroa
11/18The Figueroa Music and Arts Project Symhony Orchestra, Albuquergue, New Mexico, conductor Guillermo Figueroa
11/22(Recital in association with the Kern Foundation "Aspiration"), Brno, Czech Republic

Schedule 2013

1/16Südwestdeusche Philharmonie Konstanz, Milan, conductor Mikhail Agrest, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2
1/19Südwestdeusche Philharmonie Konstanz, Kreutzlingen, conductor Mikhail Agrest, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2
1/24Sønderjyllands Symfoniorkester, Flensburg, conductor Shao-Chia Lü, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2
1/25Sønderjyllands Symfoniorkester, Aabenraa, conductor Shao-Chia Lü, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2
1/30(Recital), Torino
2/8Filharmonia Poznańska, Poznań, conductor Marek Pijarowski, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2
2/14Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Glasgow, conductor Christian Kluxen, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2
2/15Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Edinburgh, conductor Christian Kluxen, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2
3/14Aarhus Symfoniorkester, Aaarhus, conductor Michael Schonwandt, Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 1
3/24(Recital), Scottsdale
4/2(Recital), Thomasville, Georgia
4/6Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Oklahoma, conductor Joel Levine, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2
4/9Concert with Vladimir Spivakov, Madrid
5/3-7San Diego Symphony, San Diego, conductor Jahja Ling, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 1
5/11-13Santa Rosa Symphony, Santa Rosa, conductor Jahja Ling, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 1
6/7(Recital), New York, Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall
6/22Orchestre National de Lyon, Lyon, conductor Leonard Slatkin, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 1, Piano Concerto No. 2
6/27Orchestre National de Lyon, Lyon, conductor Leonard Slatkin, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3
6/29Orchestre National de Lyon, Lyon, condutor Leonard Slatkin, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 4, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

31. 10. 2012

Music review: Olga Kern offers a program of heartfelt pianism

Music review: Olga Kern offers a program of heartfelt pianism

25. 10. 2012

New reviews

Pittsburgh review and Detroit review

13. 09. 2012

Photos from Italy Tour (Locarno, Merano and Verona)

More in gallery

16. 08. 2012

New CD coming soon

Rachmaninoff Cello Sonata with Sol Gabetta
SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT more

30. 07. 2012

Concert in Bad Kissingen

Review of Olga's concert in Bad Kissingen