Sean Eric Kennard was born on October 3,1984 and is an American classical pianist.
11 Facts About Sean Kennard
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Sean Kennard was born in San Diego, California to a Japanese mother and American father.
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Sean Kennard grew up in Hawaii and his family moved to Philadelphia when he began studying at the Curtis Institute of Music, at age 13.
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Sean Kennard performed in Carnegie Hall on May 18,1996 as part of the Hawaii Music Awards, and travelled back to Honolulu the next day to place first in the final round of the International Chopin Competition of the Pacific.
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Sean Kennard performed recitals in Poland in 1997 at the Fryderyk Chopin Society of Warsaw and Zelazowa Wola.
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Sean Kennard received his bachelor of music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music in 2004.
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Sean Kennard began studies at Curtis with Eleanor Sokoloff in 1998, and was the first student from the state of Hawaii ever to be accepted to the institution.
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Sean Kennard went on from Curtis to study with Enrique Graf at the College of Charleston in their Artist Certificate program in Fall of 2004.
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Sean Kennard was accepted into the Doctor of Musical Arts program at the Yale School of Music in the studio of Boris Berman in 2014, and completed the residential portion of the degree in the Spring of 2016.
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Sean Kennard was one of four finalists from the 2005 National Chopin Competition featured in the documentary "Pianists," relating the story of the American pianists as they travelled to Poland to participate in the 2005 International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition.
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Sean Kennard was a Laureate of the 2013 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels where he performed in the final round with the National Orchestra of Belgium conducted by Marin Alsop.