Olga Kern

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Olga Kern Biography

The first woman in more than three decades to win the Lee & Bass Gold Medal at the June 2001 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

She was a student of the famed Sergei Dorensky at the Moscow Conservatory and Boris Petrushansky at Accademia Pianistica Incontri col Maestro in Imola.

Her performance career took her to the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Osaka’s Symphony Hall, the La Scala opera house, and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

She was born Olga Pushechnikova into a family of musicians, but later took her mother’s maiden name Kern when she launched her professional performing career.

She won the first Sergei Rachmaninoff International Piano Competition when she was 17.

Olga Kern was born on 23 April 1975 in Moscow into a family of musicians. Her parents are both pianists, and she is related to the Russian socialite and memoirist Anna Petrovna Kern. Her great-grandmother was the mezzo-soprano Vera Pushechnikova. Kern 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 age 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 in 1996.

Olga Vladimirovna Kern (Russian: Ольга Владимировна Керн ; born Olga Pushechnikova, 23 April 1975) is a Russian-American classical pianist.

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. She adopted her mother’s surname, Kern, professionally as her international career developed. From 1989 to 1994, Kern held a scholarship with the “New Names” Foundation.

Kern attained international prominence when she became the first woman in over thirty years to receive the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Gold Medal in the Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in June 2001. She appears in three documentaries about the competition: Playing on the Edge (2001), They Came to Play (2008), and The Cliburn: 50 Years of Gold. An additional documentary was made about Kern following the 2001 Van Cliburn competition, titled Olga’s Journey (2003).

In 2012, Kern established the “Aspiration” foundation with her brother, conductor, composer, and teacher Vladimir Kern. The aim of the foundation is to provide financial and artistic assistance to developing young musicians throughout the world.

The inaugural competition took place in Albuquerque November 13–20, 2016. Twenty-two contestants representing fourteen countries were chosen from submitted video auditions and judged by Kern along with eight other internationally-recognized judges. The competition gave away a total of $30,000 in prize money with the winner receiving $11,000 along with a professional recording on the Steinway & Sons Label and tours throughout Europe and the United States. Vladimir Kern conducted the finalist concert with the New Mexico Philharmonic.

In 2016, Kern launched the Olga Kern International Piano Competition for pianists between the ages of 18 and 32. Taking place every three years in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the competition’s mission is to “provide the venue for young pianists to develop international careers through a competition that is recognized globally for its value and excellence.” Kern serves as Artistic Director and President of the Jury.

Besides performing, Kern is an active music pedagogue, and has conducted master classes at such locations as Yale University, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and New York City’s 92nd Street Y. Kern has been a jury member for several international competitions including Grand Prix Animato in Paris, France; the Scottish International Piano Competition in Glasgow, Scotland; Amadeus Competition in Brno, Czech Republic; and the Top of the World International Piano Competition in Tromsø, Norway. Kern was jury chairman for the Seventh Cliburn International Amateur Piano Competition in June 2016.

Kern lives in New York City. Her son is Vladislav Kern, who also plays the piano and graduated from Juilliard’s Pre-College School in May 2016.

Kern is a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences’s Division of the Arts. She was artistic director of the Cape Town Summer Festival from 2006 to 2011 and frequently returns. In September 2017, Kern joined the piano faculty of the Manhattan School of Music.

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