In today’s post I’m continuing my quest to highlight master classes (or public lessons). YouTube is a wonderful resource for teachers and students where we can enjoy various filmed classes online. These videos allow us to learn and are all at our fingertips.

Russian pianist Olga Kern was born in Moscow and studied at the renowned Central Music School from the age of five. She studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Professor Sergei Dorensky. Kern also studied in Imola, Italy with Professor Boris Petrushansky at the Accademia Pianistica ‘Incontri col Maestro’.

She won the Rachmaninov International Piano Competition and attained international prominence. She also became the first woman in over thirty years to receive the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Gold Medal in the Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. In 2016, the Olga Kern International Piano Competition was inaugurated and is held in New Mexico every three years, Kern serving as artistic director and president of the jury.

Kern is now a faculty member at the Manhattan School of Music in New York and the following lessons have been filmed at the school.