Yefim Bronfman
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Yefim Bronfman | |
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Ефим Бронфман | |
| File:Yefim bronfman (cropped).jpg Bronfman in 2009 | |
| Born | Yefim Naumovich Bronfman April 10, 1958 |
| Occupation | Pianist |
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Yefim Naumovich Bronfman (Russian: Ефим Наумович Бронфман; born April 10, 1958) is a Soviet-born Israeli-American pianist.[1]
Biography
[edit | edit source]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.[2] He became an American citizen in 1989.[3]
Bronfman's teachers were Arie Vardi, Rudolf Firkušný, Leon Fleisher, and Rudolf Serkin.[4][5]
References
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External links
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Categories:
- 1958 births
- Living people
- Uzbekistani emigrants to Israel
- Grammy Award winners
- American people of Uzbekistani-Jewish descent
- Israeli classical pianists
- Jewish American classical musicians
- Jewish classical pianists
- Male classical pianists
- Uzbekistani Jews
- Soviet Jews
- Curtis Institute of Music alumni
- 21st-century classical pianists