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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 2011-2012
Summer 2011
| 08/04-08/05 | Bear Valley Music Festival, Bear Valley, CA |
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| 08/10 | La Jolla Music Society, La Jolla, CA |
| 8/19 | Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, CO |
| 8/25 | Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles, CA |
2011-12 Season
| 9/22-25 | Houston Symphony Orchestra, Houston, TX |
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| 9/27 | Recital, Denver, CO |
| 10/5 | National Arts Centre Orchestra, Ottawa, ON, Canada |
| 10/7 | Recital, Charlotte, NC |
| 10/15-16 | Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra, Sacramento, CA |
| 10/21-23 | St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, St. Louis, MO |
| 10/30 | New York, Recital |
| 11/6 | Skanderborg: Wieck-Schumann, Schumann, Rachmaninov, Scriabine, Balakirev |
| 11/7 | Viborg: Wieck-Schumann, Schumann, Rachmaninov, Scriabine, Balakirev |
| 11/10 | Malmö: Rachmaninov: Concerto N° 2 (Conductor: Nikolaj Znaider) |
| 11/24 | Halle: Clara Schumann-Wieck, Schumann, Rachmaninov, Scriabin, Liszt |
| 11/29 | Beijing: Tchaïkovsky: Concerto N° 1 |
| 12/5 | Düsseldorf: Rachmaninov: Concerto N° 2 (Conductor: Vladimir Spivakov) |
| 12/9 | Regensburg: Rachmaninov: Concerto N° 2 (Conductor: Vladimir Spivakov) |
| 1/12 | Budapest: Chostakovitch : Concerto N° 1 (Conductor: Zoltan Kocsis) |
| 1/19-22 | Baltimore Symphony, Baltimore, MD |
| 2/16 | Chamber Evening with violinist Vladimir Spivakov, Princeton, NJ |
| 2/17 | Chamber Evening with violinist Vladimir Spivakov, Boston, MA |
| 2/18 | Chamber Evening with violinist Vladimir Spivakov, New York, NY |
| 2/19 | Chamber Evening with violinist Vladimir Spivakov, Chicago, IL |
| 2/23 | Chamber Evening with violinist Vladimir Spivakov, Toronto, ON, Canada |
| 2/25 | Chamber Evening with violinist Vladimir Spivakov, Seattle, WA |
| 2/26 | Chamber Evening with violinist Vladimir Spivakov, San Francisco, CA |
| 3/1 | Chamber Evening with violinist Vladimir Spivakov, Northridge, CA |
| 3/3 | Chamber Evening with violinist Vladimir Spivakov, La Jolla, CA |
| 3/8-10 | Lyon and Grenoble: Chostakovitch : Concerto N° 1 (Conductor: Leonard Slatkin) |
| 3/11 | Lyon: Franck, Chostakovitch (Chamber music concert) |
| 3/14 | Milano: Beethoven, Liszt |
| 3/30-31 | Krakow: Rachmaninov: Concerto N° 1 (Version of 1917) (Conductor: Antoni Wit) |
| 4/14-16 | Recitals, San Francisco, CA |
| 5/2-13 | Phoenix Symphony, Phoenix, AR |
| 5/14-20 | Colorado Symphony |
| 6/13 | Milano: Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini op. 43 (Conductor: Karl-Heinz Steffens) |
28. 01. 2012
Olga in New York
Olga is going to play a concert with Spivakov on the 18th February at Carnegie Hall on the main stage.
26. 10. 2011
New York - 92nd Street Y
New York concert comming this sunday afternoon at the 92nd Street Y.