Yefim "Fima" Naumovich Bronfman is a Soviet-born Israeli-American pianist.
13 Facts About Yefim Bronfman
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Yefim Bronfman's teachers were Rudolf Firkusny, Leon Fleisher, and Rudolf Serkin.
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Yefim Bronfman made his international debut in 1975 with Zubin Mehta and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.
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Yefim Bronfman made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1989 and gave a series of recitals with Isaac Stern in 1991.
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Yefim Bronfman won a Grammy award in 1997 for his recording of the three Bartok piano concertos with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
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Yefim Bronfman is devoted to chamber music and has performed with many chamber ensembles and instrumentalists.
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Yefim Bronfman made a set of Sergei Prokofiev's complete sonatas and concertos for Sony Records.
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In March, 2006, Yefim Bronfman performed Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No 1 with the San Francisco Symphony conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich.
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Yefim Bronfman has made appearances with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, performing Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto.
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In May 2008, Yefim Bronfman performed Johannes Brahms' Piano Concerto No 1 with Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony, during a three-week Brahms Festival.
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On September 3,2008, Yefim Bronfman performed Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor by Rachmaninoff under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas at the Opening Gala of the San Francisco Symphony, and on September 28 and 29 with the St Louis Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of David Robertson.
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Yefim Bronfman is conspicuously massive through the upper torso, a force of nature camouflaged in a sweatshirt, somebody who has strolled into the Music Shed out of a circus where he is the strongman and who takes on the piano as a ridiculous challenge to the gargantuan strength he revels in.
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Yefim Bronfman looks less like the person who is going to play the piano than like the guy who should be moving it.