Background
She was born in Belgium, and grew up in Israel.
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Edna Stern
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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.
Career
She began to play piano at the age of six. 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 2003 she moved to Paris, where she began to deliver historically informed period performances on the fortepiano.
Her first Civil Defense, Chaconne, was named the best Civil Defense of 2005 by Arte. Since September 2009 she has been teaching at the Royal College of Music in London.
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 Number. 9 Jeune Homme et Concertos Number"s 12 & 14 – Edna Stern & Orchestre d"Auverge – Highly Acclaimed Performance British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Civil Defense Review.
