The Kevin Kenner’s recital
Kevin Kenner was born on Mai 19, 1963 in Coronado. He is a winner of
the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1990. In
the history of that competition he was second American pianist (after
Garrick Ohlsson), who was both the winner but also a winner of the
prize from the public and a prize for the best performance of the
polonaises. He took part in the Chopin Competition earlier, in 1980,
when he was seventeen years old. At that time he was tenth, receiving a
special prize from the jury for special talents. Kevin Kenner is also a
winner of other piano competition – the Gina Bachauer in Salt Lake City
(1988), the Van Cliburn in Fort Worth (1989) and the Tchaikovsky
International Piano Competition in Moscow (1990), at which he won the
bronze medal and a special prize for the best interpretation of Russian
music.
Kevin Kenner studied with Krzysztof Brzuza and Ludwik Stefański in Music Academy in Cracow. He is a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of Music, with Leon Fleisher. He perfected his art at the Tanglewood Music Festival in Massachusetts and on a scholarship at the Hochschule für Musik in Hannover with Karl-Heinz Kammerling.
Kevin Kenner is much in demand as a performer, he has given numerous concerts in North and Central America and in Europe, appearing as a soloist with, for example, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, Belgian Radio and Television Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of Japan, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and with such conductors as Sir Charles Groves, Sir Andrew Davis, Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Jiří Belohlavek. He made his debut in Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and toured Honh Kong, Seoul and Singapore.
As a chamber performer he appears with Tokyo String Quartet, Endellion String Quartet, Vogler String Quartet. He taught at master courses in America, Japan, Poland.
Kevin Kenner studied with Krzysztof Brzuza and Ludwik Stefański in Music Academy in Cracow. He is a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of Music, with Leon Fleisher. He perfected his art at the Tanglewood Music Festival in Massachusetts and on a scholarship at the Hochschule für Musik in Hannover with Karl-Heinz Kammerling.
Kevin Kenner is much in demand as a performer, he has given numerous concerts in North and Central America and in Europe, appearing as a soloist with, for example, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, Belgian Radio and Television Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of Japan, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and with such conductors as Sir Charles Groves, Sir Andrew Davis, Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Jiří Belohlavek. He made his debut in Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and toured Honh Kong, Seoul and Singapore.
As a chamber performer he appears with Tokyo String Quartet, Endellion String Quartet, Vogler String Quartet. He taught at master courses in America, Japan, Poland.
