Olga Kern
Olga Kern was born in Moscow, Russia on April 23rd, 1975 and is the Pianist. At the age of 49, Olga Kern biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Olga Kern (born Olga Pushechnikova) is a Russian-American classical pianist.
Early life
Olga Kern was born in Moscow on April 23rd, 1975, into a family of musicians with the last name of Pushechnikova. Anna Petrovna Kern, a pianist, is both pianists, and she is closely related to Russian socialite and memoirist Anna Petrovna Kern. Vera Pushechnikova, the mezzo-soprano, was her great-grandmother. Kern began studying piano with Professor Evgeny Timakin at the Central Music School of Moscow at the age of five and gave her first recital in the same city at age seven. At age 11 in the Czech Republic, she won her first international competition, the Concertino Praga Competition. At 17, she received the first prize at the Rachmaninoff International Piano Competition. She received an honorary scholarship from the President of Russia Boris Yeltsin in 1996 while attending college.
Personal life
Kern lives in New York City. Vladislav Kern, who also plays piano, graduated from Juilliard's Pre-College School in May 2016.
Career
Kern continued her studies at the Moscow Conservatory with Professor Sergei Dorensky and continued her postgraduate studies at the same university. She worked with Professor Boris Petrushansky at Accademia Pianistica Maestro' in Imola. Kern, her mother's surname, was used professionally as her international work progressed. Kern received a scholarship with the “New Names” Foundation from 1989 to 1994.
Kern appeared at the Tenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 1997, but did not progress beyond the R1 level. Kern became the first woman in over three decades to win the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Gold Medal in the Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, which she shared with Stanislav Ioudenitch in June 2001. Playing on the Edge (2001), They Came to Play (2008), and The Cliburn: 50 Years of Gold are three documentaries about the sport. Following the 2001 Van Cliburn competition, an additional documentary about Kern was released, titled Olga's Journey (2003).
Kern is a musician, lecturer, and has taught master classes at such venues as Yale University, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and New York City's 92nd Street Y. Kern has been a jury member in numerous international competitions, including Grand Prix Animato, France; the Scottish International Piano Competition in Glasgow, Scotland; and the World International Piano Competition, Troms, Norway. Kern, the jury chairman for the Seventh Cliburn International Amateur Piano Competition in June 2016.
Kern is a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Division of the Arts. She served as artistic director of the Cape Town Summer Festival from 2006 to 2011 and has returned often. Kern joined the Manhattan School of Music's piano faculty in September 2017.