Yefim Bronfman was born in Tashkent, from where he and his family emigrated to Israel in 1973. He studied with Arie Vardi at the Rubin Academy in Tel Aviv before continuing to perfect his technique in the United States at the Juilliard School in New York, the Marlboro School of Music in Vermont and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. His teachers in America have included Rudolf Firkušný, Leon Fleisher and Rudolf Serkin. He made his acclaimed international debut with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under Zubin Mehta in 1975, becoming an American citizen in 1989 and giving his first recital in New York’s Carnegie Hall that same year. A series of recitals with the violinist Isaac Stern in 1991 took him back to Russia for the first time since he had emigrated eighteen years earlier. That year he was also awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize and in 2010 he received the Jean Gimpel Lane Prize from Northwestern University. In 2015 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Manhattan School of Music. Yefim Bronfman has performed with all of the world’s leading orchestras, while the conductors with whom he has worked include Daniel Barenboim, Herbert Blomstedt, Riccardo Muti, Riccardo Chailly, Franz Welser-Möst, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Sir Simon Rattle. He is also a keen chamber recitalist and has appeared alongside many eminent musicians, including Pinchas Zukerman, Martha Argerich, Magdalena Kožená, Anne-Sophie Mutter and Emmanuel Pahud. He can also look back on an impressive discography that includes no fewer than six Grammy Award nominations. In 1997 he received a Grammy for his recording of the Bartók piano concertos with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Esa-Pekka Salonen. His appearances with the Bayerisches Staatsorchester in September 2023 mark his debut with the orchestra. He is additionally taking part in a European tour as part of the orchestra’s celebrations marking the five-hundredth anniversary of its foundation.