Olga Kern

Pianist

Sunday   March 17  2002    7 p.m.
Le Petit Trianon 72 N. 5^th St.  downtown  San Jose
General  Admission    $25.     Info/Tickets  call  408-246-4200
www.steinwaythebayarea.com 

Olga Kern was awarded the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Gold Medal at the Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition on June 10, 2001. She also recently performed at the  Kennedy Center Honors for President Bush who paid tribute to Van Cliburn.  The first woman to have received the Cliburn gold medal since 1969, she was also awarded two years of international concert engagements and career management as well as a compact disc recording of her award-winning Cliburn competition performances for the harmonia mundi label.

Ms. Kern was born into a family of musicians (her great-great grandmother was a friend of Tchaikovsky) and began studying piano at the age of five. She is a laureate of several international competitions including the Hamamatsu, Ciani, and China Competitions, and has toured throughout her native Russia, Europe and the United States, as well as in Japan, South Africa, and South Korea. She has performed in many of the world's most important venues, including the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Symphony Hall in Osaka, La Scala in Milan, and the Salle Cortot in Paris. The recipient of an honorary scholarship from the President of Russia in 1996,

she is a regular soloist with the Moscow State Symphony. 
Ms. Kern is currently a postgraduate student at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and the Accademia Pianistica Incontri col Maestro in Imola, Italy, where she studies with Boris   Petrushansky. She competed at the Tenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 1997 under her maiden name Pushechnikova and devotes her free time to caring for her three-year-old son.

Steinway Society - The Bay Area is broadening the vision for arts patrons in the San Francisco Bay Area through an organization that fosters intimate evenings with some of the world's finest pianists, and whose mission Is to promote excellence In piano performance and music  education. For ticket information, call Steinway Society at 408-246-4200.

Tickets are $20.for Steinway Society Benefactors and $25. for General Public

 (Visa/MC) convenient parking.