You are cordially invited to the concert of the 7th Winter Festival, where pianist Olga Kern will perform.
Pianist Olga Kern is today recognised as one of the greatest artists of her generation, while her captivating stage presence and technical musicality make her a favourite of audiences and critics alike. She began her career in the USA with a historic gold medal at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, Texas, becoming the first woman to win the medal in over thirty years, and with her victory at the Rachmaninoff International Piano Competition.
Since then she has performed regularly with acclaimed orchestras such as the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra (Washington), the Filarmonica della Scala (Milan), the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, the NHK Symphony Orchestra (Tokyo), the Gran Canaria Philharmonic Orchestra and the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, among others. She has presided over the juries of several major piano competitions and is the artistic director of her own Olga Kern International Piano Competition.
She has been a member of the faculty of the prestigious Manhattan School of Music since 2017 and in 2019 was appointed the Connie & Marc Jacobson Director of Chamber Music at the Virginia Arts Festival (USA). With her brother, the conductor and composer Vladimir Kern, she set up the international Aspiration Foundation, a charitable organisation that provides financial and artistic assistance to musicians all over the world. Her recordings include works by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Chopin ...
Program:
L. van Beethoven: Variations on the Theme by Salieri
R. Schumann: Carnaval, Op. 9
G. Gershwin: Three Preludes for Piano
G. Gershwin: “Fascinating Rhythm”
S. Rachmaninoff: Selections of 3 pieces from Moments musicaux, Op. 16 Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 33, Morceaux de fantaisie, Op. 3
S. Rachmaninoff: Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42
A. Scriabin: Etudes, op. 42 (selection)
M. Balakirev: Islamey, Oriental Fantasy, Op. 18
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