Grammy Award-Winning Pianist Yefim Bronfman to perform at the Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall
March 16, 2006
Yefim Bronfman
This performance is the second of three concerts in the Kimmel Center Presents’ Master Musicians piano series. The final concert of this series will be by Lang Lang on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 at 8pm in Verizon Hall.
Tickets for Yefim Bronfman are $69, $60, $52, $45, and $40, and can be purchased by calling 215-893-1999, online at www.kimmelcenter.org or at the Kimmel Center Box Office, open daily from 10am to 6pm and later on performance evenings. (Additional fees may apply) For group sales call 215-893-5883.
A limited number of $10 tickets are available for every Kimmel Center Presents performance at the Kimmel Center. Tickets go on sale the day of the event and can be purchased at the Kimmel Center box office beginning 2.5 hours prior to evening performances and 11:30am for matinees.
Yefim Bronfman is a remarkable pianist who can coax the piano into melodies that resonate with the heart then march it forward to a dramatic climax with quiet intensity. His lyrical playing does not simply communicate; it combines the composer’s intention with the piano’s capabilities and translates it through his own personality to bring the audience to a new understanding. It is no wonder that he was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize in 1991 as well as the 1997 Grammy Award for “Best Instrumental Soloist” and commands the attention and admiration of all who hear him at work.
Highlights of Mr. Bronfman's 2004/05 season included a duo recital tour of the United States with pianist Emanuel Ax; a performance with the Kirov Orchestra and Valery Gergiev at Carnegie Hall; as well as concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic and Valery Gergiev in Japan and with Sir Charles Mackerras in Salzburg and Amsterdam. In addition to solo recital appearances in Philadelphia, Miami, London, Berlin, Vienna, Tokyo, and Vancouver, among other cities, he is scheduled to appear with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the London Symphony, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (on tour in Italy), and the Berlin Philharmonic, for which he will serve as the Pianist in Residence, performing multiple chamber music concerts with the orchestra's members throughout the season. As a special project he will record Beethoven's 3rd and 4th piano concertos as well as Beethoven's Triple Concerto together with violinist Gil Shaham, cellist Truls Mork, and the Tönhalle Orchestra Zürich under David Zinman as the first in a series of the complete Beethoven concerti for the Arte Nova label.
In previous seasons, Mr. Bronfman has appeared with such celebrated ensembles as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Dresden Staatskapelle, 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 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, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Yuri Temirkanov, Franz Welser-Möst and David Zinman. Summer engagements have regularly taken him to the Aspen, Bad Kissingen, Blossom, Hollywood Bowl, Lucerne, Mann Music Center, Mostly Mozart, Ravinia, Salzburg, Saratoga, Tanglewood and Verbier festivals.
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 played chamber music with Yo-Yo Ma, Joshua Bell, Lynn Harrell, Shlomo Mintz, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Pinchas Zukerman and many other artists.
Kimmel Center Presents’ 2005/2006 season is supported by: Mellon Financial Corporation, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Sovereign Bank, The American Express Company, Verizon Foundation, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the National Endowment for the Arts, and The William Penn Foundation. Special Student Matinees at the Kimmel Center are generously supported by Merck & Co., Inc. American Airlines is the Official Airline of Kimmel Center Presents. Toyota is the Official Vehicle of Kimmel Center Presents Jazz and World Pop programming. In-kind support is generously provided by Deloitte and Southern Wine and Spirit. NBC-10 is a Media Partner for Kimmel Center Presents.
KIMMEL CENTER PRESENTS
Master Musicians
Sunday, April 9, 2006 | 2pm
Verizon Hall
Yefim Bronfman, piano
Beethoven, Sonata Op.27, No.1 “Quasi una Fantasia
Chopin, Fantaisie in F minor Op. 49
Beethoven, Sonata Op.27, No.2 “Moonlight”
Ravel, Gaspard de la Nuit
Balakirev, Islamey
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