Soka Performing Arts Center Presents Internationally-Acclaimed Pianist Olga Kern

(Aliso Viejo, CA, February 4, 2019) – Soka Performing Arts Center welcomes back Grammy Award-nominated pianist Olga Kern on Friday, February 8, at 8 PM. This is Kern’s second of three concerts during her residency at Soka Performing Arts Center, and she will perform works from Scarlotti, Beethoven, Gershwin, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, and Alakirev. Kern began her US career with a Gold Medal at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, the first woman to win in thirty years. In 2016 she served as Jury Chairman of both the Seventh Cliburn International Amateur Piano Competition and the first Olga Kern International Piano Competition, where she also holds the title of Artistic Director. Ms. Kern’s discography includes her Grammy Award-nominated recording of Rachmaninoff’s Corelli Variations and other transcriptions (2004), Brahms Variations (2007) and Chopin Piano Sonatas No. 2 and 3 (2010). She was featured in the award-winning documentary about the 2001 Cliburn Competition, Playing on the Edge.

Tickets are $50 for adults; $40 for students, seniors and active military families, and are now available online at performingarts.soka.edu, at the Box Office at 1 University Drive in Aliso Viejo or by calling (949) 480-4ART (4287).

About Soka Performing Arts Center
Now is in its eighth season of presenting the best of live performances on its extraordinary stage, Soka Performing Arts Center, located on the campus of Soka University of America in Aliso Viejo, California, is under the new leadership of General Manager Renee Bodie. The 1,000-seat concert hall features world-class acoustics designed by Yasuhisa Toyota, acoustic designer of noted performance venues like Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and Suntory Hall in Tokyo.

Designed to truly reflect the university’s commitment to sustainability, the concert hall and adjacent Maathai Hall (featuring a black box theatre and dance studio) have been built to Gold LEED standards and feature vegetated green roofs. Photo voltaic cells on the Soka Performing Arts Center roof generate approximately 15% of the facility’s electrical needs.

Soka University of America is a private, non-profit, four-year liberal arts college and graduate program. The university is open to top students of all nationalities and beliefs and was founded upon the Buddhist principles of peace, human rights, and the sanctity of life. For more information: soka.edu

OLGA KERN, solo piano
Friday, February 8, at 8PM

Event URL: http://bit.ly/SokaOlgaKern

SCARLOTTI                        3 Sonatas
BEETHOVEN                      Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 “Waldstein”
GERSHWIN                        3 Preludes                   
                                           “Fascinating Rhythm” from Seven Virtuoso Etudes  (arr. Earl Wild)
RACHMANINOFF              Moments Musicaux, Op. 16, No. 4 in E minor
                                           7 Morceaux de salon, Op. 10, No. 3 “Barcarolle”
                                           Morceaux de fantasie, Op. 3, No. 4 “Polichinelle”
SCRIABIN                          2 Etudes, No. 4 and No. 5, Op.42
ALAKIREV                         Islamey, Op. 18

TICKETS                $50/$40 students, seniors, and active military families

In Person           Soka Performing Arts Center Box Office, 1 University Drive, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656
Online                 performingarts.soka.edu
Phone                 949.480.4ART (4278)

All information is accurate at the time of printing but is subject to change.

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MEDIA CONTACT
Jennifer Urbano
949.480.4014
jurbano@soka.edu