Biography

Internationally recognized as one of today’s most acclaimed and admired pianists, Yefim Bronfman stands among a handful of artists regularly sought by festivals, orchestras, conductors, and recital series. His commanding technique, power, and exceptional lyrical gifts are consistently acknowledged by the press and audiences alike.

Following return visits to summer festivals in Vail and Tanglewood, his season begins with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and concludes with the closing week of the San Francisco Symphony. With orchestras in North America, he returns to Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Houston, Pittsburgh, Washington DC, Nashville, San Diego, Buffalo, Fort Wayne, and Kalamazoo. In addition to a return to the Israel Philharmonic, he can be heard in Europe with orchestras in Berlin, Munich, Paris, Geneva, Milan, Turin, Athens, and Lyon.

Born in Tashkent in the Soviet Union, Yefim Bronfman immigrated to Israel with his family in 1973, where he studied with pianist Arie Vardi, head of the Rubin Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University. In the United States, he studied at The Juilliard School, Marlboro School of Music, and the Curtis Institute of Music, under Rudolf Firkusny, Leon Fleisher, and Rudolf Serkin.

A recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize, he was further honored in 2010 as the recipient of the Jean Gimbel Lane prize in piano performance from Northwestern University and in 2015 with an honorary doctorate from the Manhattan School of Music.