Yefim Bronfman
{{Short description|Soviet-born Israeli-American pianist (born 1958)}}
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| native_name = Ефим Бронфман
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| birth_name = Yefim Naumovich Bronfman
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1958|04|10}}
| birth_place = Tashkent, Uzbek SSR
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| nationality = American, Israeli
| native_name_lang = ru
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| occupation = Pianist
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Yefim Naumovich Bronfman ({{langx|ru|Ефим Наумович Бронфман}}; born April 10, 1958) is a Soviet-born Israeli-American pianist.{{Cite web |title=Yefim Bronfman Biography |url=https://www.musicianguide.com/biographies/1608001801/Yefim-Bronfman.html |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=www.musicianguide.com}}{{Cite book |last=Pâris |first=Alain |title=Le nouveau dictionnaire des interprètes |date=2015 |publisher=Robert Laffont |isbn=978-2-221-14576-0 |edition=Nouvelle éd. actualisée |series=Bouquins |location=Paris}}
Biography
Bronfman was born in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, and immigrated to Israel at the age of 15. He was born into a musical Jewish family. His father Naum Bronfman was a concertmaster of the municipal opera orchestra, his mother Pauline Bronfman was a pianist, and his older sister Elizabeth later became a violinist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.{{Cite web |title=Musical meeting will lead to wedding bells |url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2000/12/15/musical-meeting-will-lead-to-wedding-bells/ |access-date=2025-02-08 |website=Tampa Bay Times |language=en}} He became an American citizen in 1989.{{cite web |url=http://nyphil.org/about-us/ArtistDetail?artistname=yefim-bronfman |access-date=2014-06-26 |title=The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence, 2013–14 |website=New York Philharmonic}}
Bronfman's teachers were Arie Vardi, Rudolf Firkušný, Leon Fleisher, and Rudolf Serkin.{{cite news| last=Wigler| first=Stephen| title=Yefim Bronfman At 33, pianist already an old-timer| url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1992-05-29-1992150022-story.html| date=May 29, 1992| access-date=2021-02-12| newspaper=The Baltimore Sun| language=en-US}}{{cite web| title=Yefim Bronfman| url=https://www.mariinsky.ru/en/company/orchestra/piano/yefim_bronfman/| access-date=2020-08-23| website=Mariinsky Theatre}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.yefim-bronfman.com/ Official website]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20040815141839/http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entity_id=3457&source_type=A More biographical information about Bronfman]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20061112124549/http://sonybmgmasterworks.com/artists/yefimbronfman/ Discography at SonyBMG Masterworks]
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Category:Uzbekistani emigrants to Israel
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