March 31, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Maggie Estes, Director of Marketing
mestes@cliburn.org,
817.738.6536
FORT WORTH, TEXAS, March 31, 2011--The 2010-2011
Cliburn Concerts Series will come to an thrilling
close on Tuesday, April 12, 2011
at 7:30 p.m. with a performance by the
incomparable Olga Kern. Gold medalist of the
Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Kern's
dazzling technique and luminous stage presence have established her
as one of the foremost pianists of her generation. Celebrating the
anniversary of her 24-karat win a decade ago, she will captivate
the Fort Worth audience with a dramatic program featuring works by
Russian composers Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alexander Scriabin, and Mily
Balakirev. Tickets for this concert are available for
purchase through Central Ticket Office at
800.462.7979 or online at
Cliburn.org.
Since her triumph at the 2001 Cliburn Competition, Olga
Kern has built a reputation as one of the world's most
exciting and formidable pianists. The Washington Post
wrote, "Kern's musicality radiates off the stage and saturates the
hall, and it is joyously alive, immediately communicative,
fragrantly sensual, and almost visual in its intensity. Whatever it
is--call it star quality--music likes Kern the way the camera liked
Garbo."
Kern is in demand for the most prestigious recital and concert
series worldwide, and her impressive schedule encompasses over 60
concerts annually. She has appeared as a soloist with the Bolshoi
Theater, Moscow Philharmonic, St. Petersburg Symphony, China
Symphony, and La Scala Philharmonic, as well as with the Kirov
Orchestra under the direction of Valery Gergiev at the Kennedy
Center. She is invited regularly to perform at renowned music
festivals and has appeared in recital at the Interlochen Festival,
the Bravo! Vail Festival, Festival Casals in Puerto Rico, and the
Proms with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of
Leonard Slatkin.
The recipient of many awards and accolades, Kern took top prize at
the Rachmaninoff International Piano Competition at age 17, and
received an honorary scholarship from Russian President Vladimir
Putin in 1996. She has produced several recordings on the harmonia
mundi label and was featured prominently in the award-winning
documentary, Playing on the Edge, which chronicled the
2001 Cliburn Competition.
The complete program will include:
Clara Schumann Variations on a Theme of
Robert Schumann, op. 20
Robert Schumann Carnaval, op.9
Préambule
Pierrot
Arlequin
Valse noble
Eusebius
Florestan
Coquette
Réplique
Papillons
A.S.C.H-S.C.H.A: Lettres dansantes
Chiarina
Chopin
Estrella
Reconnaissance
Pantalon et Colombine
Valse allemande
Intermezzo: Paganini
Aveu
Promenade
Pause
Marche des "Davidsbündler" contre les Philistins
Sergei Rachmaninoff Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Major,
op. 36 (1931)
Alexander Scriabin Sonata No. 9, op. 68 ("Black
Mass")
Mily Balakirev Islamey: Oriental
Fantasy
About the Van Cliburn Foundation
The Van Cliburn Foundation disseminates classical music worldwide,
and launches and nurtures young artists' careers through the
quadrennial Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, the
ensuing three-year international concert tours of its
medalists, award-winning documentaries, and a syndicated
radio series dedicated to the competition and its most
memorable performances. By making the competition available
in its entirety on the Internet, the Foundation has extended
its outreach to listeners in every corner of the globe.
For audiences in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, the Van Cliburn
Foundation promotes great music and world-class artists
through the annual Cliburn Concerts series. It reaches over
30,000 elementary school students annually with the education
programs of Musical Awakenings®. In 1999, it established
the International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs™,
which The Boston Globe proclaimed "a celebration of music,
and the people who have to make music, no matter what." The
sixth Amateur Competition will be held May 23-29, 2011 at Ed
Landreth Auditorium on the campus of TCU.
Visit Cliburn.org to learn more about the Cliburn as it approaches
the 50th anniversary of the first Van Cliburn International
Piano Competition.
ExxonMobil is the Principal Corporate Sponsor of
the Van Cliburn Foundation. American Airlines;
Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust, Bank of America,
Trustee; Steinway & Sons; and
XTO Energy Inc. are Official Corporate Sponsors.
Official Sponsors are the Amon G. Carter
Foundation, Arts Council of Fort Worth &
Tarrant County, Beaumont Foundation of
America, the Burnett Foundation, the
Sid W. Richardson Foundation, and the T.
Boone Pickens Foundation. Star-Telegram
is the exclusive print media sponsor, and WRR 101.1
FM is the official radio station of Cliburn Concerts.
