Sean Kennard

Quick Facts

Full Name	Sean Kennard
Date Of Birth	Oct 3, 1984(1984-10-03)
Age	40
Birthplace	San Diego
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Capricorn

Sean Kennard Biography

Sean Kennard is one of the most popular and richest Pianist who was born on October 3, 1984 in San Diego, California, United States. Sean Eric Kennard (born October 3, 1984) is an American classical pianist.

Beginning in the fall of 2017, Kennard holds the position of Associate Professor of Piano at Stetson University’s School of Music.

After beginning studies with Graf, Kennard won various other prizes in piano competitions, including the National Chopin Competition, Iowa Piano Competition, and Dr. Luis Sigall Music Competition. He 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. In 2009 he was one of two pianists named “Vendome Virtuosi” at the Vendome Prize in Lisbon. He 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. When he was accepted into Yale’s Doctor of Musical Arts program In 2014, he was the sole musician chosen to receive the Mustard Seed Foundation’s Harvey Fellowship Award, a cash stipend given to exceptional Christian students in top tier graduate programs around the world.

Sean Kennard Net Worth

Sean Kennard is one of the richest Pianist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sean Kennard 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Kennard began lessons at the Ellen Masaki School of Music on his tenth birthday, October 3, 1994 in Honolulu, Hawaii, and began studies with Ellen Masaki on January 5, 1995. In the summer of that year he gave his first public solo performance in Honolulu. He 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. He performed recitals in Poland in 1997 at the Fryderyk Chopin Society of Warsaw and Żelazowa Wola (Chopin’s birthplace). On October 3, 1997, the third anniversary of beginning piano studies, he performed a recital of Chopin’s Études Op. 10 and 25 at the Academy of Arts in Honolulu.

Kennard received his bachelor of music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music in 2004. He 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. In his final year, he was awarded the piano department’s Sergei Rachmaninoff Award, given to one graduating pianist each year. During his time at Curtis, he won 2nd prize at the Hilton Head International Piano Competition. Immediately after graduating, he competed in the Sendai International Music Competition, and was the first American and contestant outside of Asia and Europe to win a prize in the competition. He went on from Curtis to study with Enrique Graf at the College of Charleston in their Artist Certificate program in Fall of 2004. In 2012 he graduated with a Master of Music from the Juilliard School, studying with Jerome Lowenthal and Robert McDonald, before entering the Professional Studies Diploma program at Mannes College later that year to study with Richard Goode. He 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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Steve Ranked on the list of most popular Pianist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Sean Kennard celebrates birthday on October 3 of every year.