YEFIM BRONFMAN

Yefim Bronfman is widely regarded as one of the most talented virtuoso pianists performing today.

Mr. Bronfman appears regularly with such celebrated ensembles as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Paris and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. He has worked with major conductors, including Barenboim, Blomstedt, von Dohnányi, Dutoit, Eschenbach, Gergiev, Jansons, Maazel, Masur, Mehta, Salonen, Temirkanov, Welser-Möst and Zinman.

Summer engagements regularly take him to the Aspen, Blossom, Hollywood Bowl, Lucerne, Ravinia, Salzburg, Tanglewood and Verbier festivals. A devoted chamber music performer, Mr.Bronfman has collaborated with Yo-Yo Ma, Joshua Bell, Lynn Harrell, Pinchas Zukerman and the Emerson, Cleveland, Guarneri and Juilliard quartets, as well as the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

Mr. Bronfman has given numerous solo recitals in the leading halls of North America, Europe and the Far East. In 1991, he gave a series of joint recitals with Isaac Stern in Russia, marking Mr.Bronfman's first public performances there since his emigration to Israel at age 15. That same year he was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize, one of the highest honors given to American instrumentalists.

2006-07 season highlights include the opening Gala of the New York Philharmonic with live national TV coverage; the world premiere of Esa-Pekka Salonen's Piano Concerto, written for him and commissioned by the New York Philharmonic; concerts to celebrate the Israel Philharmonic's 70th birthday, conducted by Zubin Mehta and Valery Gergiev; appearances with the Boston Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, National Symphony; Los Angeles and Vienna Philharmonics; Orchestre de Paris and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and performances at the Salzburg Easter Festival with the Berlin Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle.

An exclusive SonyBMG recording artist, Mr. Bronfman won a Grammy Award in 1997 for his recording of the three Bartók Piano Concertos with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and his recording of all five of the Prokofiev Piano Concertos was nominated for both Grammy and Gramophone Awards.

Mr. Bronfman was born in Tashkent, in the Soviet Union. He became an American citizen in 1989.