Yefim Bronfman

Yefim Bronfman is acclaimed worldwide as one of the most important pianists of our time. His international career began in 1978 with his New York Philharmonic debut under Zubin Mehta. Since then, he has given recitals in all the leading concert halls in Europe, the USA and Asia, as well as at international festivals in Aspen, Tanglewood, Bad Kissingen, Lucerne, Verbier and Salzburg.

He works regularly with the world’s leading orchestras and with conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Herbert Blomstedt, Semyon Bychkov, Riccardo Chailly, Christoph von Dohnányi, Gustavo Dudamel, Charles Dutoit, Daniele Gatti, Valery Gergiev, Alan Gilbert, Vladimir Jurowski, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Andris Nelsons, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jaap van Zweden, Franz Welser-Möst and David Zinman.

In the 2023/24 season Yefim Bronfman performed for the first time with the Bavarian State Orchestra, on a European tour celebrating the orchestra’s 500th anniversary. A tour of Asia with the Concertgebouw Orchestra under Fabio Luisi took him to Japan and Korea. In the USA he has appeared with the New York Philharmonic and the Kansas City Symphony, performed Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with Anne-Sophie Mutter, Pablo Ferrández and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under Susanna Mälkki and appeared in recitals in Washington and at Carnegie Hall, among other venues. With the Munich Philharmonic, he has performed Brahms’s piano concertos in Munich, Spain and New York. Other appearances include concerts with the Minnesota Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony and the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Andris Nelsons. He is always keen to explore chamber music repertory, with partners who have included Pinchas Zukerman, Martha Argerich, Magdalena Kožená, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Emmanuel Pahud and many others.

Yefim Bronfman was born in Soviet Tashkent and in 1973 emigrated with his family to Israel. In 1991 he gave a series of joint recitals with Isaac Stern in Russia marking his first public performances there since his emigration. He studied in Tel Aviv and continued his education in the USA, including at the Juilliard School of Music in New York.
A recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize, Yefim Bronfman was further honoured 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.