Edna Stern
Edna Stern (Hebrew: עדנה שטרן; born 6 March 1977) is a Belgian-Israeli pianist.[1][2]
Biography
She was born in Belgium,[3] and grew up in Israel.[1] She began to play piano at the age of six.[1][2] She studied piano under Viktor Derevianko and Natasha Tadson at the Rubin Academy of Music and Dance in Tel Aviv.[1] Afterwards she studied at the Chapelle Royale Reine Elisabeth in Brussels, and studied with Martha Argerich.[1] In 1996 she moved to Basel, Switzerland, where she studied for four years as a student of Krystian Zimerman.[4] Later on she took part in masters courses in piano at the International Piano Academy Lake Como under Alicia de Larrocha, Dimitri Bashkirow, Andreas Staier, and Leon Fleisher.[1][5] She followed Fleisher to the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, Maryland, for a year.[1][5] In 2000 she won the international competition, Senigallia, and in 2001 the Juventus Award.[2] In 2003 she moved to Paris, where she began to deliver historically informed period performances on the fortepiano.[1][6] Her first CD, Chaconne, was named the best CD of 2005 by Arte.[5] Since September 2009 this artist[7] has been teaching at the Royal College of Music in London.[5][8][9]
Repertoire
Her current repertoire varies from Johann Sebastian Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and Luciano Berio to contemporary composers.
CDs
- 2005: Chaconne (Pieces from Ferruccio Busoni, Rudolf Lutz, and Johann Sebastian Bach), with Amandine Beyer (violin)
- 2008: Sonatas by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach for violin and keyboard
- 2008: Fantasies by Robert Schumann
- 2009: Nun komm der Heiden Heiland – Preludes, fugues und chorals by Bach
- 2010: Chopin Piano Sonate No. 2 / Préludes
- 2010: Mozart Piano Concerto No. 9 Jeune Homme and Concertos Nos 12 & 14 – Edna Stern & Orchestre d'Auvergne – Highly Acclaimed Performance BBC Radio CD Review
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 [1], Allmusic
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 [2] Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, The Salgon Times
- ↑ Deux compositeurs oubliés de Terezin, Akadem
- ↑ Sanderson, Blair. "Biography: Edna Stern". AllMusic. Retrieved 16 July 2010.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 [3], Czechcentres
- ↑ [4] Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Thesaigontimes
- ↑ 88 notes pour piano solo, Jean-Pierre Thiollet, Neva Editions, 2015, p. 93. ISBN 978-2-3505-5192-0
- ↑ [5], France Musique
- ↑ [6], Geozik
External links
- Official website
- Edna Stern on THINQon (frozen since 2012)
- Biography
- Biography at naïve.fr (in French)
- 1977 births
- Academics of the Royal College of Music
- Belgian emigrants to Israel
- Belgian Jews
- Belgian classical pianists
- 21st-century Belgian pianists
- Belgian women classical pianists
- Jewish Israeli musicians
- Israeli classical pianists
- Israeli women classical pianists
- Living people
- Musicians from Brussels
- Peabody Institute alumni
- Jewish classical pianists
- Belgian women musicians
- 21st-century classical pianists
- Belgian music educators
- Israeli music educators
- Israeli women music educators
- Belgian women music educators
- 21st-century women pianists