The Vancouver Chopin Society: Kevin Kenner
Kevin Kenner was the first American pianist to win prizes in both the Chopin and Tchaikovsky Competitions
Date/Time: Nov 24 2019, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Vancouver, Vancouver Playhouse | Event calendar600 Hamilton St
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Cost: $30.00
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An artist at the height of his maturity and power, Kevin Kenner’s playing inevitably receives critical notices for its stylishness and depth. In a 2014 recital with legendary violinist Kyung Wha Chung, it was the pianist’s playing that captured the critic’s ear, “It was Kenner’s beautifully calm, pearly tone which reached into the tragic heart of Prokofiev’s F minor sonata.”
Most recently, Kenner’s recording of the piano works of Paderewski has also been drawing much positive attention. Gramophone magazine named the CD one of its recordings of the month. His performances of Chopin have also garnered enthusiastic responses from audience members, critics, and musicians. Conductor Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, who performed and recorded with Artur Rubinstein, claimed Kenner’s Chopin interpretation to be the most sensitive and beautiful he remembered.
Kenner is pianist and artistic director of the Frost Chopin Festival in Miami, and delights in bringing world-class musicians to perform and teach during this one-week academy.
It has been a few years since Kenner played in Vancouver. Do not miss the opportunity to hear one of today’s greatest Chopinists.
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