Yefim Bronfman

Piano

Yefim Bronfman was born in 1958 in Tashkent, in the Soviet Union, and studied at the Rubin Academy of Music, Tel Aviv, as well as at the Juilliard School, Marlboro Music, Vermont, and the Curtis Institute; and with Rudolf Firkusny, Leon Fleisher and Rudolf Serkin.

Bronfman appears regularly with such celebrated ensembles as the Berlin and the Vienna Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic, London’s Philharmonia, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Paris and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. He was a “Perspectives” Artist at Carnegie Hall in 2007/08 and is “Artiste Etoile” in residence at the Lucerne Festival in 2009.

Bronfman works with the leading conductors, including Daniel Barenboim, Herbert Blomstedt, Christoph von Dohnányi, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Valery Gergiev, Mariss Jansons, Lorin Maazel, Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Franz Welser-Möst and Simon Rattle, and has made solo appearances in the principal concert halls of North America, Europe and the Far East. He has also appeared at the Aspen, Bad Kissingen, Lucerne, Mostly Mozart, Salzburg, Saratoga, Tanglewood and Verbier Festivals and the White Nights Festival, St Petersburg.

Highlights of the 2009-10 season include subscriptions with the Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Cleveland Orchestras, as well as the WDR Orchestra in Cologne. Following concerts with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Alan Gilbert he will join them on tour in Europe in winter 2010. He will appear in London again with the Philharmonia under Christoph von Dohnányi playing both Brahms Concerti for a live recording on the orchestra’s label. A recital tour in Japan will continue with concerts in Rome, Vienna, Warsaw, North America and culminate at Carnegie Hall where he will also appear in duo with Magdalena Kozena.

A devoted chamber music performer, Yefim Bronfman has collaborated with the Emerson, Cleveland, Guarneri and Juilliard Quartets, as well as the Chamber music Society of Lincoln Center. He has also played with Yo-Yo Ma, Joshua Bell, Lynn Harrell, Shlomo Mintz, Jean-Pierre Rampal and Pinchas Zukerman, and many other artists.

Bronfman won a Grammy Award in 1997 for his recording of Bartok’s three piano concertos with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and was nominated for Grammy and Gramophone Awards for his recordings of Prokofiev’s five piano concertos. His most recent releases include a recital disc, “Perspectives”, and recordings of all the Beethoven piano concerti as well as the Triple Concerto together with Gil Shaham and Truls Mørk, and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich under David Zinman for the Arte Nova/BMG label. 2008 saw the release of the Tchaikovsky Trio in A minor with Shaham and Mørk as partners. Salonen’s piano concerto, written for Bronfman, appeared on Deutsche Grammophon in spring 2009.

In 1991 Yefim Bronfman was awarded the Avery Fisher Prize, one of the highest honours given to American instrumentalists.

SEASON 2009/2010

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