Yefim Bronfman News

The largest privately funded, admission-free classical music festival in the United States presents over three weeks of world-class performances this summer in a beautiful outdoor alpine setting, featuring the Festival's all-star orchestra, led by Music Director Alasdair Neale.

Music Director Xian Zhang leads the New Jersey Symphony and violinist Hilary Hahn in the Sibelius Violin Concerto on a January 28–29 program featuring Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Ballade in A Minor and Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5.

The New Jersey Symphony is accepting applications for the ninth annual Edward T. Cone Composition Institute. This multifaceted, tuition-free program offers four emerging composers the opportunity to have their music rehearsed and performed by the New Jersey Symphony and participate in sessions with industry leaders.

The Sun Valley Music Festival will present its fifth Winter Season at the Argyros Performing Arts Center from March 15-17, 2023. The program will feature Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, one of the most popular works in all classical music, in an arrangement for 21 brass and percussion musicians.

Upon entering it seemed like the entire audience had their phones out snapping pictures of the new space - the banter was almost uniformly positive. All in all, it is a vastly more attractive space than the old one. Some folks even shed tears as they gazed around.

The 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY), one of New York's leading cultural venues, presents Emmanuel Pahud, flute & Alessio Bax, piano, play Beethoven, Franck, and more, on November 15, 2022 at 7:30pm ET at the Kaufmann Concert Hall.

Composer Magnus Lindberg's new Piano Concerto No. 3 for superstar pianist Yuja Wang debuts on October 13-15 with the San Francisco Symphony and Esa-Pekka Salonen, a close collaborator of many decades.

The Royal Conservatory of Music will open its doors to audiences for the first full concert season since March of 2020.

The New Jersey Symphony and Music Director Xian Zhang open the Symphony's milestone centennial season with a pair of classical programs featuring pianists Yefim Bronfman and Michelle Cann.

Prolific violinist, conductor, creator, transcriber, and recording artist Dmitry Sitkovetsky is in demand internationally as a soloist and chamber music collaborator, performing this season in Berlin, Germany; Tel Aviv & Jerusalem, Israel; Bucharest, Romania; Havana, Cuba; Istanbul, Turkey; Baku, Azerbaijan; Mexico City and Guadalajara, Mexico and more.

BroadStage is inaugurating a new and engaging chamber music series Sunday Morning Music / Santa Monica curated by award-winning cellist and longtime BroadStage collaborator Antonio Lysy, musical director of the annual Incontri in Terra di Siena Chamber Music Festival in Tuscany, Italy that he founded in 1989. 

After opening his 15th season as Music Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony with a gala benefit featuring Joshua Bell (Sep 17), Honeck makes his American operatic debut with Mozart's Idomeneo at New York's Metropolitan Opera (Sep 28–Oct 20); returns to the podiums of the Chicago Symphony (Nov 17–20) and San Francisco Symphony (June 1–3); and makes his Juilliard Orchestra debut (Oct 17).

All tickets are on sale now for the New Jersey Symphony's landmark centennial season, led by Music Director Xian Zhang. Patrons can purchase tickets for individual concerts and can save through subscriptions and Compose Your Own series packages of three or more mainstage concerts.

Get exclusive presale access to Riccardo Muti’s culminating season as music director which revives signature pieces, showcases the Orchestra's principal players and features premieres of new compositions. Season highlights also include guest appearances from Yefim Bronfman, Hilary Hahn, Maurizio Pollini, Joshua Bell, Maria João Pires and returning holiday favorites: A Chanticleer Christmas and Merry, Merry Chicago!

The 2022–23 season begins at the Curtis Institute of Music this October, with dynamic programming that includes orchestra, opera, and chamber music concerts, and recitals, totaling more than 150 performances in Philadelphia through May 2023.

Roy Thomson Hall will present Itzhak Perlman and Friends, a very special evening that will mark a once-in-a-lifetime presentation featuring some of the brightest classical music stars: Itzhak Perlman, Emanuel Ax, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and Juilliard String Quartet.

Washington Performing Arts announces its 2022/23 Season with the theme of The World in Our City, running from October of 2022 through June of 2023 and featuring artists from 19 nations.

Segerstrom Center for the Arts presents the Emerson String Quartet on Thursday, May 5 at the Samueli Theater. The Emerson String Quartet features Eugene Drucker, violin, Philip Setzer, violin, Lawrence Dutton, viola, and Paul Watkins, cello. The program includes Mozart K. 589; Bartok No. 1; and Beethoven Op. 132. A preview talk with Dr. Byron Adams at 7:15pm.

The Toronto Symphony Orchestra announces an historic 2022/23 season that celebrates the Orchestra's 100th anniversary. Events, repertoire, and world-renowned artists have been programmed to reflect and pay homage to the TSO's illustrious past, signal the beginning of a dynamic future, and pay tribute to the vibrant, diverse community it serves.

The New Jersey Symphony and Music Director Xian Zhang announce the Symphony's landmark 2022–23 centennial season—and an extension of Zhang's music director contract through the 2027–28 season.