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Marin Alsop
For Marin Alsop’s bio., please see pg. 7.
Jo seph M eyer ho f f Sy m pho ny Hall
Yefim Bronfman
Marin Alsop
Music Director • Harvey M. And Lyn P. Meyerhoff Chair
Yefim Bronfman
Friday, May 2, 2014 — 8 p.m.
Sunday, May 4, 2014 —3 p.m.
Presenting Sponsor:
Marin Alsop, Conductor
Yefim Bronfman, Piano
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major,
opus 73, "Emperor"
Allegro
Adagio un poco mosso
Rondo: Allegro
YEFIM BRONFMAN
INTERMISSION
Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 12 in D minor, opus 112,
"The Year 1917"
Revolutionary Petrograd
Razliv
“Aurora”
The Dawn of Humanity
The concert will end at approximately 9:45 p.m. on Friday and 4:45 p.m. on Sunday.
Support for the appearance of Yefim Bronfman is provided
by the Ruth Blaustein-Rosenberg Guest Artist Fund.
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www. bsomusic .org
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B a l t i m o r e S y m p h o n y O r c h es t r a
Yefim Bronfman
is widely regarded
as one of the most
talented virtuoso
pianists performing today. His commanding technique and exceptional lyrical gifts
have won him consistent critical acclaim
and enthusiastic audiences worldwide,
whether for his solo recitals, his prestigious
orchestral engagements or his rapidly
growing catalogue of recordings.
The 2013 –2014 season has sent Mr.
Bronfman to Amsterdam, Helsinki, Lucerne, Berlin and Australia, and he is the
New York Philharmonic’s featured artistin-residence. The remainder of the season
includes a short duo tour with Pinchas
Zukerman, returns to leading U.S. and
European orchestras, a Far East visit with
the New York Philharmonic, and a complete cycle of all the Beethoven concertos
to bring the season to a close in June.
Mr. Bronfman was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize in 1991 and the
Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in piano performance from Northwestern University in
2010. He was nominated for a Grammy
Award in 2009 for his Deutsche Grammophon recording of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s
piano concerto, with whom he won a
Grammy Award in 1997 for his recording
of the three Bartók Piano Concertos with
the Los Angeles Philharmonic. This year,
he has been nominated for a Grammy
with the New York Philharmonic for their
recording of Magnus Lindberg’s Second
Piano Concerto written for him on commission from that orchestra in 2012.
Born in Tashkent in the Soviet Union
on April 10, 1958, Yefim Bronfman immigrated to Israel with his family in 1973.
He studied with pianist Arie Vardi, head
of the Rubin Academy of Music at Tel
Aviv University. In the U.S., he studied at
The Juilliard School, Marlboro and the