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—PERSPECTIVES: YEFIM BRONFMAN—

PIANIST YEFIM BRONFMAN APPEARS AS RECITALIST, SOLOIST, AND
CHAMBER MUSICIAN IN SEVEN CONCERTS AT CARNEGIE HALL

Mr. Bronfman Kicks Off His Season-long Perspectives as Soloist in
Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Orpheus on October 23

December 17 Solo Recital in Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage
Features the World Premiere of a New Work by Jörg Widmann

Mr. Bronfman Also Appears as Soloist with the Vienna Philharmonic,
Royal Concertgebouw, The MET Chamber Ensemble, and New York String Orchestra

This season, Carnegie Hall presents pianist Yefim Bronfman in a seven-concert Perspectives series that highlights the breadth of his talents as soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. For these performances, Mr. Bronfman is joined by some of the world’s finest musicians and ensembles, including the Emerson String Quartet, Orpheus, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, The MET Chamber Ensemble, and conductors Jaime Laredo, Mariss Jansons, Valery Gergiev, and James Levine. Repertoire for Perspectives: Yefim Bronfman includes solo, chamber, and orchestral works by composers ranging from Mozart, Brahms, Schoenberg, and Berg to Webern, Prokofiev, and Ravel, with world premieres by Jörg Widmann and Marc-André Dalbavie. Carnegie Hall’s Perspectives series is an artistic initiative in which select musicians are invited to explore their own musical individuality and create their own personal concert series through collaborations with other musicians and ensembles.

October 2007
Mr. Bronfman begins his Perspectives on Tuesday, October 23 at 8:00 p.m. with a performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15 with Orpheus. Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony No.1, Op. 9, and Brahms’s Hungarian Dances Nos. 1, 3, and 10 are also on the program.

Yefim Bronfman comments: “Orpheus—a conductor-less ensemble—wanted to do this piece, and at first I was reluctant—Mozart, okay, or Beethoven, but Brahms is trickier. They insisted and felt they can do it and I’m open to experiments. I’m going to take a chance.”

December 2007
In December, Mr. Bronfman makes two appearances at Carnegie Hall as recitalist and soloist. On Monday, December 17 at 8:00 p.m., Mr. Bronfman returns to Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage for his only New York recital of the season. The program, which is based on the concept of the fantasy, features Beethoven’s Sonata No. 13 in E-flat Major, Op. 27, No. 1, "quasi una fantasia"; Schumann’s Fantasy in C Major, Op. 17; Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit; Balakirev’s Islamey; and the world premiere of a new work by Jörg Widmann, commissioned by Carnegie Hall.

Yefim Bronfman comments: “There are so many pieces that are based on fantasies and the concept of the fantasy. Schumann wrote his Fantasy with Beethoven in mind. They were erecting a monument of Beethoven in Bonn, and Schumann wrote it for the occasion…It’s very eccentric and a great piece that I just love to play. The opening piece is a Beethoven work—the Sonata No. 13. The new Widmann piece will be sandwiched in between the Beethoven and Schumann. Balakirev’s Islamey is an ‘Oriental fantasy.’ When Ravel wrote his Gaspard de la nuit, he said he wanted it to be more difficult than Islamey, which had a reputation for being the hardest piece. And he succeeded! To put these back to back will be fun. This Ravel piece is so different from Beethoven’s and Schumann’s world. After the intermission, you’ll hear this new sonority.”

Mr. Bronfman also joins the New York String Orchestra, led by Jaime Laredo, for a performance of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat Major, K. 482, on Monday, December 24 at 7:00 p.m. in Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage.

Yefim Bronfman comments: “I knew Alexander Schneider, the founder of the New York String Orchestra. When he was alive, he engaged me several times to play with him. In 1974, I made my New York debut with them along with Schlomo Mintz and Yo-Yo Ma. They play their hearts out!”

January 2008
As a chamber musician, Mr. Bronfman joins conductor James Levine and The MET Chamber Ensemble for a Zankel Hall program celebrating the works of composers of the Second Viennese School on Sunday, January 27 at 5:00 p.m. The pianist performs Berg’s Chamber Concerto for Piano, Violin, and 13 Winds with violinist Gil Shaham, on a program that also includes Webern’s Symphony, Op. 21, and Concerto for Nine Instruments, Op. 24. The evening concludes with a performance of Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire with soprano Anja Silja.

Yefim Bronfman comments: “Berg’s Chamber Concerto is one of the greatest pieces that I have ever played. It’s a great collaboration and you need a great violinist and conductor. This is one of the most important pieces of the 20th century, and every opportunity I get I want to play this piece. The late German romantic sound, the complexity of it, the idea behind it—it’s like a great part for an actor that you come to a theater to hear. You’re able to express yourself in a very big way, and yet it’s a chamber music work.”

February – March 2008
In February and March 2008, Mr. Bronfman appears as soloist in two Prokofiev piano concertos with two world renowned orchestras in Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage. On Tuesday, February 5 at 8:00 p.m., he joins Mariss Jansons and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra for a performance of Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26. Mr. Jansons also leads the Orchestra in Brahms’ Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73, and Otto Ketting’s De aankomst ("The Arrival"). Mr. Bronfman then appears as soloist in Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 16 with fellow Perspectives artist Valery Gergiev and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra on Saturday, March 1 at 8:00 p.m. Debussy’s Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74, "Pathétique" complete the program, which showcases St. Petersburg as a city of musical intersections.

Yefim Bronfman comments: “These are two completely different Prokofiev pieces written at very different times in his life. The Third is more French, influenced by Ravel and Poulenc—I always call it a French concerto. The Second Concerto is part of his St. Petersburg period. In a way it’s a greater piece—more interesting, original, powerful, and revolutionary. No one had written a concerto like this before—or after for that matter!”

May 2008
Perspectives: Yefim Bronfman concludes with an evening of chamber music on Sunday, May 4 at 2:00 p.m. in Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, in which the pianist is joined by close colleagues violinist Gil Shaham and cellist Lynn Harrell, the Emerson String Quartet, and soprano Olga Makarina. The program, which focuses on Russian and French chamber music, features the world premiere of Marc-André Dalbavie’s new piano trio, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall, as well as Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 50, and Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 57, and Seven Verses for Soprano, Violin, Cello, and Piano, Op. 127

Yefim Bronfman comments: “I wanted to do a combination Russian/French program. The French component is a new trio by Marc-André Dalbavie that was co-commissioned by Carnegie and Aspen. I’ve had a long relationship with the Emerson String Quartet and I’m thrilled to be playing the Shostakovich Quintet with them. I recently played and recorded the Tchaikovsky Trio on the road with my friends, but not in New York, so that’s on the program. And Shostakovich’s Seven Verses for Soprano, Violin, Cello, and Piano is simply one of the great song cycles: great poetry, very strong music—one of the most touching cycles ever written.”


About the Artist
Grammy Award-winner Yefim Bronfman is one of today’s most celebrated concert pianists. Born in Tashkent, Mr. Bronfman moved to Israel with his family in 1973, where he studied with Arie Vardi, head of the Rubin Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University. He made his international debut two years later with Zubin Mehta and the Montreal Symphony. Since that time, Mr. Bronfman has played recitals in the world’s leading halls, giving debuts at Carnegie Hall in 1989 and Avery Fisher Hall in 1993. He toured Russia in 1991 with Isaac Stern, which marked his first public performances there since his emigration to Israel.

The recipient of the 1991 Avery Fisher Prize, Mr. Bronfman regularly appears with the Berlin, Vienna, London, Los Angeles, New York and Israel Philharmonic orchestras and The Cleveland Orchestra. He has worked with some of the world’s most prominent conductors including Daniel Barenboim, Herbert Blomstedt, Christoph von Dohnányi, Christoph Eschenbach, Valery Gergiev, Mariss Jansons, Zubin Mehta, Sir Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Yuri Temirkanov. His regular summer engagements have been at the festivals in Aspen, Lucerne, New York’s Mostly Mozart, Ravinia, Salzburg, Tanglewood, and Verbier. A passionate chamber musician, Mr. Bronfman has collaborated with cellists Yo-Yo Ma and Lynn Harrell; violinists Joshua Bell, Pinchas Zukerman, and Gil Shaham; flutists Jean-Pierre Rampal and Emmanuel Pahud; and numerous chamber ensembles including the Emerson, Juilliard, Cleveland, and Guarneri string quartets.

This season, Mr. Bronfman tours Europe with the San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas; Japan with the Kirov Orchestra and Valery Gergiev; and Germany and Scandinavia with the NDR Symphony under Christoph von Dohnányi. He also performs solo recitals in New York, Baltimore, Chicago, Kansas City, Toronto, Paris, Zagreb, Brno and in Japan. He plays concertos with the Chicago, Atlanta, San Francisco, New Jersey, and Toronto symphony orchestras, and closes out the season with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in the west coast premiere of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Piano Concerto, conducted by the composer.

Carnegie Hall’s Perspectives
Now in its ninth season, Carnegie Hall’s Perspectives series is an artistic initiative in which select musicians are invited to explore their own musical individuality and create their own personal concert series through collaborations with other musicians and ensembles. Other artists presenting Perspectives during the 2007–2008 season are conductor Valery Gergiev and vocal innovator/conductor Bobby McFerrin.

Previous Perspectives artists have included conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim; conductors Pierre Boulez, James Levine, Michael Tilson Thomas, and David Robertson; violinist Gidon Kremer; cellist Yo-Yo Ma; pianists Martha Argerich, Emanuel Ax, Maurizio Pollini, Peter Serkin, Mitsuko Uchida, Leif Ove Andsnes, and Pierre-Laurent Aimard; soprano Dawn Upshaw; bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff; the Emerson String Quartet; Senegalese vocalist Youssou N’Dour; Brazilian singer-songwriter Caetano Veloso; and experimental rocker David Byrne.

Program Information for Perspectives: Yefim Bronfman


Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at 8:00 p.m.
Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage
ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Yefim Bronfman, Piano

JOHANNES BRAHMS Hungarian Dances Nos. 1, 3, and 10
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9
JOHANNES BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15

Presented by Orpheus in Partnership with Carnegie Hall.

Tickets: $24, $29, $43, $64, $67, $85, $95
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Monday, December 17, 2007 at 8:00 p.m.
Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage
YEFIM BRONFMAN, Piano

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 13 in E-flat Major, Op. 27, No. 1, "quasi una fantasia"
JÖRG WIDMANN New Work (World Premiere, Commissioned by The Carnegie Hall Corporation)
ROBERT SCHUMANN Fantasy in C Major, Op. 17
MAURICE RAVEL Gaspard de la nuit
MILY BALAKIREV Islamey

Sponsored by Smith Barney

Perspectives concerts are made possible in part by a generous grant from the Alice Tully Foundation.

Carnegie Hall commissions in the 2007–2008 season are made possible, in part, by a grant from the New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

Tickets: $28, $35, $46, $65, $86, $96
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Monday, December 24, 2007 at 7:00 p.m.
Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage
NEW YORK STRING ORCHESTRA
Jaime Laredo, Conductor
Yefim Bronfman, Piano

ALL-MOZART PROGRAM
Symphony No. 1 in E-flat Major, K. 16
Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat Major, K. 482
Symphony No. 35 in D Major, K. 385, "Haffner"

Perspectives concerts are made possible in part by a generous grant from the Alice Tully Foundation.

This concert is made possible, in part, by an endowment fund for young artists established by Stella and Robert Jones.

Tickets: $18, $37, $48
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Sunday, January 27, 2008 at 5:00 p.m.
Zankel Hall
THE MET CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
James Levine, Artistic Director and Conductor
Anja Silja, Soprano
Gil Shaham, Violin
Yefim Bronfman, Piano

ANTON WEBERN Symphony, Op. 21
ANTON WEBERN Concerto for Nine Instruments, Op. 24
ALBAN BERG Chamber Concerto for Piano, Violin, and 13 Winds
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21

Perspectives concerts are made possible in part by a generous grant from the Alice Tully Foundation.

Tickets: $56, $68
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Tuesday, February 5, 2008 at 8:00 p.m.
Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage
ROYAL CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA
Mariss Jansons, Chief Conductor
Yefim Bronfman, Piano

OTTO KETTING De aankomst ("The Arrival")
SERGEI PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26
JOHANNES BRAHMS Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73

Sponsored by Continental Airlines, the Official Airline of Carnegie Hall

Perspectives concerts are made possible in part by a generous grant from the Alice Tully Foundation.

Tickets: $36, $44, $58, $81, $106, $118
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Saturday, March 1, 2008 at 8:00 p.m.
Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Valery Gergiev, Conductor
Yefim Bronfman, Piano

Perspectives: Valery Gergiev

CLAUDE DEBUSSY Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
SERGEI PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 16
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74, "Pathétique"

This concert is made possible, in part, by the Audrey Love Charitable Foundation.

Perspectives concerts are made possible in part by a generous grant from the Alice Tully Foundation.

Tickets: $62, $77, $102, $144, $189, $210
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Sunday, May 4, 2008 at 2:00 p.m.
Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage
YEFIM BRONFMAN & FRIENDS
Yefim Bronfman, Piano
Gil Shaham, Violin
Lynn Harrell, Cello
Olga Makarina, Soprano
Emerson String Quartet
   Eugene Drucker, Violin
   Philip Setzer, Violin
   Lawrence Dutton, Viola
   David Finckel, Cello

MARC-ANDRÉ DALBAVIE New work for piano trio (World Premiere, Commissioned by The Carnegie Hall Corporation and the Aspen Music Festival and School)
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH Seven Verses for Soprano, Violin, Cello, and Piano, Op. 127
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 57
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 50

Perspectives concerts are made possible in part by a generous grant from the Alice Tully Foundation.

Carnegie Hall commissions in the 2007–2008 season are made possible, in part, by a grant from the New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

Tickets: $27, $33, $44, $62, $81, $90
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Bank of America is the Proud Season Sponsor of Carnegie Hall.


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