Edna Stern (Hebrew: עדנה שטרן; born 6 March 1977) is a Belgian-Israeli pianist.
Biography
She was born in Belgium, and grew up in Israel. She began to play piano at the age of six. She studied piano under Viktor Derevianko and Natasha Tadson at the Rubin Academy of Music and Dance in Tel Aviv.
Afterwards she studied at the Chapelle Royale Reine Elisabeth in Brussels, and studied with Martha Argerich. In 1996 she moved to Basel, Switzerland, where she studied for four years as a student of Krystian Zimerman. 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.
She followed Fleisher to the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, Maryland, for a year. In 2000 she won the international competition, Senigallia, and in 2001 the Juventus Award.
In 2003 she moved to Paris, where she began to deliver historically informed period performances on the fortepiano.
Her first CD, Chaconne, was named the best CD of 2005 by Arte.
Since September 2009 this artist has been teaching at the Royal College of Music in London.
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
- ^ , Allmusic
- ^ 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.
- ^ , Czechcentres
- 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
- , France Musique
- , 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