A frequent touring partner with the world’s greatest orchestras and conductors, Bronfman begins the 2024/25 season with the Pittsburgh and NDR Hamburg symphonies on tour in Europe, followed by China and Japan with the Vienna Philharmonic. With orchestras in the US, he returns to Cleveland, New York, Houston, Portland, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Miami, Sarasota, and Pittsburgh, and in Europe, he returns to Hamburg, Helsinki, Berlin, Lyon, and Vienna. In advance of a spring Carnegie Hall recital, his program can be heard in Austin; St. Louis; Stillwater, OK; San Francisco; Santa Barbara; Washington, DC; Amsterdam; Rome; Lisbon; and Spain. Two special projects are scheduled this season: duos with flutist Emmanuel Pahud in Europe in the fall and trios with Anne-Sophie Mutter and Pablo Ferrández in the US.  

Born in Tashkent in the former Soviet Union, Yefim Bronfman immigrated with his family in 1973 to Israel, where he studied with pianist Arie Vardi, head of the Rubin Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University. In the United States, he studied at The Juilliard School, Marlboro School of Music, and the Curtis Institute of Music, under Rudolf  Firkušný, Leon Fleisher, and Rudolf Serkin. A recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize, he was further honored in 2010 as the recipient of the Jean Gimbel Lane prize in piano performance from Northwestern University and in 2015 with an honorary doctorate from the Manhattan School of Music.