Yefim Bronfman

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Yefim "Fima" Bronfman (born April 10, 1958) is a Jewish-born Russian-Israeli pianist.

He was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and emigrated to Israel at the age of 15. He now has US citizenship.

He made his international debut in 1975 with Zubin Mehta and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.

He made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1989 and gave a series of recitals with Isaac Stern in 1991. 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. Another recording with Salonen, of the concertos of Sergei Rachmaninov, was pirated by the record label Concert Artist and re-issued with the piano part falsely attributed to Joyce Hatto.

Bronfman is also devoted to chamber music and has performed with many chamber ensembles and instrumentalists.

He made a set of Prokofiev's complete Sonatas and Concertos (with Zubin Mehta).

In March, 2006, Bronfman performed the Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 1 with the San Francisco Symphony conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich.

Bronfman has also made an appearance with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, performing Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto.

Highlights of his current season include appearances with the Orchestre de Paris and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. In January 2007 he also premiered Esa-Pekka Salonen's piano concerto, of which he is the dedicatee, with the New York Philharmonic conducted by the composer. This was later followed by a European premiere at the Proms with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.