Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
Yefim Bronfman
Soviet-born Israeli-American pianist (born 1958) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
Yefim Naumovich Bronfman (Russian: Ефим Наумович Бронфман; born April 10, 1958) is a Soviet-born Israeli-American pianist.[1][2]
![]() | This biography of a living person includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. (January 2016) |
Remove ads
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.[1][3] He became an American citizen in 1989.[4]
Bronfman's teachers were Arie Vardi, Rudolf Firkušný, Leon Fleisher, and Rudolf Serkin.[5][6]
Remove ads
References
External links
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads