Yefim Naumovich Bronfman, born April 10, 1958, in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union, is a Soviet-born Israeli-American pianist. Bronfman began piano lessons at age 7 and gave his first performance at age 12 playing Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 1. Bronfman made his international debut in 1973 with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and his North American debut in 1975 with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under Zubin Mehta. Bronfman debuted at Carnegie Hall in 1989, the year he became a United States citizen. His recording of Béla Bartók's piano concertos with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic won the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (with Orchestra) in 1997. Bronfman won the Avery Fisher Prize in 1991, the Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance in 2010, and received an honorary doctorate from the Manhattan School of Music in 2015, joining the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in 2020.
