Photo: Chris LeeOlga Kern
Russia; based in the United States
Olga Kern was born in Russia into a family of musicians and began piano at five.
- Van Cliburn gold medal, 2001
- First prize, Rachmaninoff Competition, at 17
- Grammy nomination
- Manhattan School of Music faculty
- Steinway Artist
“Her powerful performances of Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Scriabin and Schumann made her a crowd favorite.”
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At seventeen she won first prize at the Rachmaninoff International Piano Competition. In 2001 she took the gold medal at the Van Cliburn Competition in Fort Worth, the only woman to do so in half a century. Her Harmonia Mundi disc of Rachmaninoff’s Corelli Variations was nominated for a Grammy.
She has played with the Czech Philharmonic, Tokyo’s NHK Symphony and the Filarmonica della Scala, and has performed all four Rachmaninoff concertos as a cycle. Since 2017 she has taught at the Manhattan School of Music; she directs chamber music at the Virginia Arts Festival and is artistic director of the Olga Kern International Piano Competition. In February 2027 she plays Rachmaninoff’s Third Concerto with the Vancouver Symphony.
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