Pianist Inon Barnatan to Make Detroit Debut, 3/29

Israeli-born pianist Inon Barnatan makes his Detroit debut with a recital on the Chamber Music Society of Detroit series Sunday, March 29 at 3 PM. The concert takes place at Seligman Performing Arts Center, located on the campus of Detroit Country Day School at 22305 West 13 Mile Road (corner of Lahser Road) in Beverly Hills. Tickets, priced at $30 - $60 and $15 - $30 for students, may be purchased by phone at 248-855-6070 or online at www.ChamberMusicDetroit.org.

Pianist Inon Barnatan was recently named as the New York Philharmonic's first Artist-in-Association, a major three-season appointment highlighted by multiple concerto and chamber collaborations with the orchestra. Mr. Barnatan has performed with many of the world's leading orchestras, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the symphony orchestras of Atlanta, Dallas, Cleveland, Philadelphia, and San Francisco, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Equally commanding in solo and chamber performances, the Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient has performed recitals at Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Wigmore Hall, and the Concertgebouw, among others. He is a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and frequently performs as a recital partner of cellist Alisa Weilerstein.

Born in Tel Aviv in 1979, Inon Barnatan started piano at the age of three and made his orchestral debut at 11. His studies connect him to some of the last century's most distinguished pianists and teachers: he studied with Professor Victor Derevianko, himself a pupil of Russian master Heinrich Neuhaus, before studying with Maria Curcio (a student of the legendary Artur Schnabel) and Christopher Elton at London's Royal Academy of Music, and has since been taught and mentored by Leon Fleisher.

In addition to making his subscription debut with the New York Philharmonic, Mr. Barnatan's 2014-2015 season includes performances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Orchestre National de France, Milwaukee Symphony and Atlanta Symphony. In recital, he performs at London's Wigmore Hall, Chicago's Harris Theater, the Celebrity Series of Boston, and in New York with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, in addition to his Detroit debut on the Chamber Music Society of Detroit series.

Mr. Barnatan's performances and recordings have been garnering extravagant praise worldwide; typical is this comment from London's Evening Standard: "The young, Israeli born pianist Inon Barnatan is a true poet of the keyboard: refined, searching, unfailingly communicative... This is musicianship of the highest caliber."