Kenny Broberg

Kenny Broberg has become one of the most decorated and internationally renowned pianists of his generation. He won the silver medal at the 2017 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, the bronze medal at the 2019 Tchaikovsky International Competition, and the Christel DeHaan Classical Fellowship as the winner of the 2021 American Pianists Awards. Broberg is praised for his inventive, intelligent, and intense performances.

“Broberg mastered everything he played over the weekend, drawing a palette of moods from each register,” writes The Indianapolis Star about Broberg’s performance during the final of the American Pianists Awards. “In the ‘Dante Sonata’ from Liszt’s Years of Pilgrimage, the pianist easily captured the drama of the journey, channeling all the energy of those emotions into the epic finale.”

Broberg, who credits his first contact with classical music to his Italian grandfather’s fondness for the Three Tenors, began taking piano lessons on his family’s upright piano at the age of 6. During his childhood in Minneapolis, he started studying piano with Dr. Joseph Zins at the Crocus Hill Studios in Saint Paul.

Broberg graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree in 2016 from the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston, studying with Nancy Weems. He continued his studies at Park University in Parkville, Missouri, under the guidance of Stanislav Ioudenitch, gold medalist at the 2001 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Also committed to teaching, Broberg has been an Artist in Residence at the University of Indianapolis, Distinguished Piano Fellow at the Oberlin-Como Academy, and Adjunct Piano Professor at the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid.

Performing on stages and in concert halls across five continents, Broberg has worked with some of the world’s most respected conductors, including Ludovic Morlot, Kent Nagano, Leonard Slatkin, Vasily Petrenko, Michael Sanderling, Nicholas Milton, John Storgårds, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Alexander Sladkovsky, Gerard Schwarz, and Nicholas McGegan. He has collaborated with numerous orchestras, such as the Royal Philharmonic, the Russian National Orchestra, the State Academic Symphony Orchestra “Evgeny Svetlanov,” and the symphonies of Minnesota, Montreal, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Sydney, Seattle, and Fort Worth, among many others. He has appeared on WQXR, Performance Today, Minnesota Public Radio, ABC (Australia) radio, and NPR. He is also a composer and transcriber, and his transcriptions have been recorded. His performances have been released on Decca Gold, Warner Classics, the Steinway & Sons label, and Universal Music Australia, and his album “Songbird” with violinist Maria Ioudenitch received the Chamber Music Recording Award at the 2023 Opus Klassik Awards.

He is currently an exclusive artist with IberArtis Musicians Agency, a brand belonging to Global IberArtis S.L.