Edna Stern
Edna Stern (Hebrew: עדנה שטרן; born March 6, 1977 in Brussels) is a Belgian-Israeli pianist.[1][2]
Biography
She was born in Belgium,[3] but raised in Israel.[1] She began to play the 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 playing the fortepiano and to deliver historically informed period performances.[1][6]
She has played the gamut from the works of J.S. Bach to contemporary keyboard music, on many different pianos as called for by the stylistic and historic needs of the music.[1] An example is her 2010 album of Chopin's solo piano works, which she played on the 1842 Pleyel piano in the collection of the Musée de la Musique, in Paris.[1]
Her first CD, Chaconne, was named the best CD of 2005 by Arte.[5]
Since September 2009 she has been teaching at the Royal College of Music in London.[5][7][8]
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 from Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach for violin and piano
- 2008: Fantasies from Robert Schumann
- 2009: Nun Komm der Heiden Heiland – Preludes, fugues und chorals from Bach
- 2010: Chopin Sonate2/Préludes
- 2010: Mozart Concerto No. 9 Jeune Homme et Concertos No's 12 & 14 – Edna Stern & Orchestre d'Auverge – Highly Acclaimed Performance BBC Radio CD Review
References
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