Yefim Bronfman was born in the Soviet Union in 1958 and is widely regarded as one of today’s most talented virtuoso pianists. His commanding technique and exceptional lyrical gifts have won him consistent critical acclaim and enthusiastic audiences worldwide.
Mr. Bronfman appears regularly with the world’s greatest orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, and New York Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. He has worked with an equally illustrious group of conductors, including Daniel Barenboim, Herbert Blomstedt, Christoph von Dohnányi, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Valery Gergiev, Mariss Jansons, Lorin Maazel, Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, Yuri Temirkanov and David Zinman.
Mr. Bronfman has won widespread praise for his solo, chamber and orchestral recordings, and won a Grammy award for his recording of the three Bartok Piano Concertos with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. His discography includes the complete Prokofiev Piano Sonatas and Concertos, Rachmaninov’s Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3, and recital albums of Mussorgsky, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky. His recordings with Isaac Stern include violin sonatas by Mozart, Brahms and Bartók. He recently completed recordings of all the Beethoven piano concerti as well as the Triple Concerto together with violinist Gil Shaham, cellist Truls Mørk, and the Tönhalle Orchestra Zürich under David Zinman. Mr. Bronfman’s most recent release on Sony BMG is Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 with Bayerischen Rundfunks and Mariss Jansons.
A devoted chamber music performer, Mr. Bronfman has collaborated with the Emerson, Cleveland, Guarneri and Juilliard quartets, as well as the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He has also performed and recorded chamber music with Yo-Yo Ma, Gil Shaham, Joshua Bell, Lynn Harrell, Emannuel Pahud, Jean-Pierre Rampal and Pinchas Zukerman, amongst others.