News From GPAC pianist yefim bronfman CLOSES IRIS SEASON ON A HIGH NOTE 4/7/2003.Widely regarded as one of the most talented virtuoso pianists http://www.gpacweb.com/news_release.asp?rsNewsKey=38
Piano-e-Competition A Success of the Disklavier, the Pianoe-Competition was unlike any competition that had gonebefore one of the seven judges, acclaimed pianist yefim bronfman, was on http://www.yamaha.com/publications/accent/Accent302/03-pianocomp.html
Extractions: Piano-e-Competition a Success Russian pianist Tatiana Kolessova T he first International Piano-e-Competition has reached its successful conclusion in Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN. Mei-Ting Sun DC3A Pro grand piano and more. Thanks to the reproducing technology of the Disklavier, the Piano-e-Competition was unlike any competition that had gone before: one of the seven judges, acclaimed pianist Yefim Bronfman Piano Competition winner Mei-Ting Sun Screening auditions began on June 4 - 6 and contestants performed preliminary rounds from June 7 - 11. On June 13 and 14 at Sundin Hall at Hamline University, finalists performed Schubert Sonatas and Quintets by Shostakovich, Brahms, and Dvorak. Concerto performances, held on Saturday, June 15 and Sunday, June 16 at Orchestra Hall, were accompanied by the Winnepeg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mark Russell Smith Six pianists made it to the final rounds. Five of them, including Sun, gave their final performances on Monday, June 17th:
Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Performance Detail who serves as Music Director of the Tonhalle Orchestra in Zurich and Music Directorof the Aspen Music Festival, leads the CSO with pianist yefim bronfman. http://www.cso.org/main.taf?p=3,9,4&eventid=5017
Min Kwon, Pianist - New York, NY She has also studied in various masterclasses with Murray Perahia, Richard Goode,yefim bronfman, Emanuel Ax, and Andre Watts. A versatile pianist, Min Kwon http://www.pianoteachers.com/min_kwon.htm
Extractions: Home New York About the Teacher Having enjoyed an extensive performance career traveling to over 30 countries in an average of 70 concerts a year, Dr. Min Kwon joins the faculty of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey in New Brunswick in the fall of 2002. Drawing from an unusually varied musical activities, Dr. Kwon looks forward to focusing her efforts on teaching and devoting more time to her students. Previously, she has taught Piano Minor and Chamber Music at Juilliard and maintained successful studios both in New York City and in Korea. Her warm personality, insightful approach, and individually tailored teaching method have produced astounding results; students have been accepted to Juilliard, Curtis, Peabody, Indiana, Eastman, Manhattan, and Mannes Schools of Music. Min Kwon earned her Bachelor of Music from the Curtis Institute of Music, where she began her studies at the age of fourteen with Eleanor Sokoloff, and received her Master's and Doctorate Degrees from the Juilliard School under Martin Canin. She then pursued post-doctoral studies in Europe with two distinguished professors of German and Russian Piano Schools: Hans Leygraf and Vitali Margulis. She has also studied in various masterclasses with Murray Perahia, Richard Goode, Yefim Bronfman, Emanuel Ax, and Andre Watts. A versatile pianist, Min Kwon gained extertise on orchestral keyboard playing working with Mary Sauer, Principal Keyboard of the Chicago Symphony, and Harriet Wingreen, pianist of the New York Philharmonic. An active chamber musician and collaborator, Min Kwon also received intensive coachings with Dorothy DeLay, Samuel Sanders, Felix Galimir, Jonathan Feldman, and Jerome Lowenthal.
Press Releases The esteemed pianist yefim bronfman makes his Series debut performinga program he will take to many of the worlds musical capitals. http://www.union.edu/N/DS/s.php?s=2886
Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide To Classical Music 3 was yefim bronfman, hovering over the keyboard with a bearish embrace and releasingcascades of t miss when played to the hilt by a good pianist and orchestra http://www.classicstoday.com/Classics/ConcertReview_ASPFiles/ViewConcertReview.a
New York Chronicle By Jay Nordlinger yefim bronfman is quite simply one of the best pianists in the world. And if thatsnot saying enough for youand it may not behe is a very fine pianist http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/20/mar02/jay.htm
Extractions: by Jay Nordlinger L M ichelle DeYoung is a youngish American mezzo-soprano with a big and burgeoning career: concert dates, operatic roles, recordings, the works. So it was with some anticipation that I attended her recital in Weill Recital Hall (part of the larger Carnegie complex). It could be that DeYoung did not put her best foot forward that evening. Beginning the second half of the program were Six Songs on Poems by D. H. Lawrence Michelle DeYoung must have something on the ball for the vocal world to have responded as positively to her as it has. But these winning qualities were not to the fore in her recent recital. A after A t the end of January, the Orchestre de Paris visited Carnegie Hall, with its music director, Christoph Eschenbach, the German who is set to assume the leadership of the Philadelphia Orchestra. They brought with them the French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who has received some of the most rapturous reviews of the recent period. What was all the fuss about? Was it truly for his pianism, or did it have to do with his steadfast devotion to new music (Aimard has long been a soldier in the army of Pierre Boulez)? B T The second movement felt a bit heavy, not sufficiently
FOCM - Yefim Bronfman (piano) In Israel he studied with pianist Arie Vardi, head of the Rubin Academy yefim Bronfmanimmigrated to Israel with his family in 1973, and made his international http://www.miamichambermusic.org/artists/bios/bronfman.html
Extractions: (piano) Yefim Bronfman is widely regarded as one of the most talented virtuoso pianists performing today. His commanding technique and exceptional lyrical gifts have won him consistent critical acclaim and enthusiastic audiences worldwide, whether for his solo recitals, his prestigious orchestral engagements or his rapidly growing catalogue of recordings. An exclusive Sony Classical recording artist, Mr. Bronfman has won widespread praise for his solo, chamber, and orchestral recordings. He won a Grammy award in 1997 for his recording of the three Bartók piano concertos with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. His discography also includes all five of the Prokofiev piano concertos, nominated for both Grammy and Gramophone awards. A devoted chamber music performer, Mr. Bronfman has collaborated with the Emerson, Cleveland, Guarneri and Juilliard quartets, as well as with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He has also played chamber music with Yo-Yo Ma, Joshua Bell, Lynn Harrell, Shlomo Mintz, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Pinchas Zukerman and many other artists. Mr. Bronfman was born in Tashkent, in the Soviet Union, in 1958. In Israel 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 and the Curtis Institute, and with Rudolf Firkusny, Leon Fleisher and Rudolf Serkin.
NPR : Performance Today For Thursday, October 30, 2003 . bronfman and Stern. We re spending this hour with pianist yefim bronfman, startingwith a Mozart (17561791) recording he made with violinist Isaac Stern. http://www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=4&prgDate=30-Oct-2003
Classical Piano Links pianist (NL). Alfred Brendel pianist (AT), yefim bronfman pianist.Katia Bronska pianist (PL), Sara Davis Buechner pianist. Francesco http://www.carolinaclassical.com/pianolinks.html
KoreaHerald Location LG Arts Center. yefim bronfman piano recital June 8, 800 pm, at theLG Arts Center. The Russiaborn pianist to perform A. Bergs Sonanata, Op. http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/livingart/art_cal/detail_art.asp?id=284
Extractions: Having just recently heard a perfomrance of Concerto No. 2, I was knocked out by the beauty and intense beauty of the piece. Learning that he wrote it for his son, a budding pianist explains even more. From the sections that begin as a piano exercise, then bursting forth into joy and full throttled joy, this is sensuous, fun music. No wonder this is included in collections of romanctic piano music. The First Concerto is a fitting tribute of sorts to his job as pianist for a silent theater, with chasing sounds of strings and piano then orchestra along with some brilliant solo trumpet.
Prokofiev:Piano Sonatas - Sergey Prokofiev , Yefim Bronfman bronfman is simply greata pianist with enormous potential who is given only yefimbronfman approaches the ninth with just the right amount of naivete and http://www.classicalmusicreview.com/ProkofievPiano_Sonatas_B0000028XH.html
Extractions: This is an absolutely fantastic collection of interpretations. The nuances are so brilliantly, yet subtly, incorporated, and Bronfmans tone is amazing. My favorite is probably the second sonata ... in the first movement he produces such a fantastic, eerie sensation in the second theme. The last movement was so exciting and involved, carefully thought through in every way, yet played with a delightful abandon. Ive listened to this CD over and over again and highly recommend it to anyone looking for an absolutely spectacular performance of these sonatas.
Dallas Symphony Orchestra pianist yefim bronfman uses his commanding brilliance to perform Brahmsmighty Piano Concerto No. 2 January 29Feburary 1, 2004. http://www.dallassymphony.com/?crs=pr&article=56
Magnificent Music - Center For The Arts is assured when The Kirov Orchestra known worldwide for its brilliant andstylish playing welcomes GRAMMYwinning pianist yefim bronfman as guest http://www.gmu.edu/cfa/preview/series.php?id=3
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Extractions: TOP-LINK UP-LINK ADD URL SEARCH ... E-MAIL PIANISTS LINKS Arbiter's Museum of Historic Pianists - Arbiter Records Home Page, over 60 very short biographies by Allan Evans. Argerich, Martha b. 1941. - Excerpts from a 1979 interview with Dean Elder; in-print discography; reviews. Ashkenazy, Vladimir 1937- - Some facts, a 1995 interview, discography and reviews from Classic CD magazine page. Astriab, Lou - provides information on the American pianist. Atamian, Dickran - pianist. Ax, Emanuel Batagov, Anton 1965- - Includes biography, gallery and texts by the pianist. Bauer, Harold 1873-1951. - Bauer Collection in the Music Division of the Library of Congress includes biography, etc. Baxtresser, Margaret - explores the enchanting, nature-filled world of Claude Debussy and the Impressionist Painters. Bekhterev, Boris - provides information on the Russian-born pianist. Berman, Bart - Israeli concert pianist specializing in Schubert and contemporary music performance. Berman, Boris - Pianist of international stature and teacher at Yale University School of Music. Bernstein, Leonard 1918-1990
Classical Pianist Jon Kimura Parker - Announcements brightest international stars including Emanuel Ax, Joshua Bell, yefim bronfman,Lynn Harrell Six is a project conceived by Canadian pianist Janina Fialkowska. http://www.kimura.com/announce.html
Extractions: The previous Season of the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival was a great success! It featured a children's concert, and performances were presented twice to satisfy the demand for tickets. In addition to the Orcas Center, the Eastsound Episcopal Church was chosen again as a second performance venue. The participating artists were Artistic Director Aloysia Friedmann, Martin Friedmann, and Jeanne Preucil Rose (violin/viola), William Preucil, Gwen Starker Preucil and Stephen Rose (violin), Desmond Hoebig and Toby Saks (cello), Owen Kotler (clarinet), Jon Kimura Parker and Jamie Parker (piano). If you would like to be placed on our mailing list to obtain info on Season Five, please call (360) 376-6636. If you would like to order the live recording of the FIRST SEASON of the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival on CD , please email the webmaster Ingrid Verhamme at: iverham@yahoo.com to have your order processed! Send a cheque or money order for USD 24.95 (this includes tax and shipping/handling costs), made out to "Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival", to the following address:
Mercury News 05/02/2004 Pianist Gets His Right Hand Back teacher, a famous one, with famous students, including André Watts and yefim bronfman. TheAmerican Academy of Neurology was honoring the pianist, its keynote http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/entertainment/music/8562244.htm
News season with Brahms s First Piano Concerto (August 6); yefim bronfman takes on the Mr.Dutoit is joined by renowned pianist Martha Argerich, violinist Nikolaj http://www.philorch.org/styles/poa02e/www/news_20030811.html
Extractions: Highlights of the Orchestra's 2003 SPAC series include: The Complete Brahms Concertos with Charles Dutoit and the Orchestra over four concerts that pair Brahms's four concertos with well-loved orchestral works, including Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring , Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances, and Ravel's La Valse Emanuel Ax opens the Orchestra's Saratoga season with Brahms's First Piano Concerto (August 6); Yefim Bronfman takes on the notoriously demanding Second Piano Concerto the following evening (August 7); Elmar Oliveira performs the Violin Concerto (August 8); Joshua Bell and Boris Pergamenchikov close the cycle with Brahms's last concerto, the Double Concerto, for violin, cello, and orchestra. A Salute to St. Petersburg (1703-2003) and its Great Composers
Music Review: Symphony Plays With Fire Jansons in one of his last concert weekends; a program that s repeated in New York sCarnegie Hall in two weeks; pianist yefim bronfman s smoldering fingers http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04066/282052.stm
Extractions: The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra has been playing hot these days, but last night it played as if a fire had been lit beneath it. The return of music director Mariss Jansons in one of his last concert weekends; a program that's repeated in New York's Carnegie Hall in two weeks; pianist Yefim Bronfman's smoldering fingers, perhaps even the "Firebird" herself all of these had a role in this inflamed concert at Heinz Hall. We see our "Fima" Bronf-man so often it obscures how much he improves each year. Let there be no mistake, with his commanding performance of Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2, the audience is hearing a pianist in the prime of his career. There's a certain dose of audacity in the early works of Prokofiev a daring for daring's sake that seeks to drench the listener in sheer virtuosity because he could. Bronfman's fantastic chops, steady no matter the vigorous attack on the keyboard, rendered his playing true to the bold and brazen heart of the concerto. The once scandalous first-movement cadenza, where Prokofiev essentially replaces the other players with orchestral writing for the piano, was awe-inducing in Bronfman's blurred hands.
