Pianist Inon Barnatan is rapidly gaining international recognition for his poetic and passionate music making, communicative performances and engaging programming.

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Be sure to hear all of Inon Barnatan’s 2012 Festival performances listed below

Mozart / Berg / Brahms
Sunday, July 29, 2012, 6:00 PM at St. Francis Auditorium

Mozart / Berg / Brahms
Monday, July 30, 2012, 6:00 PM at St. Francis Auditorium

Solo Piano Recital
Tuesday, July 31, 2012, 12:00 PM at St. Francis Auditorium

Bach Plus
Saturday, August 4, 2012, 5:00 PM at St. Francis Auditorium

Beethoven / Brahms
Tuesday, August 7, 2012, 12:00 PM at St. Francis Auditorium

Pianist Inon Barnatan is rapidly gaining international recognition for his poetic and passionate music making, communicative performances and engaging programming. Since moving to the United States in 2006, he has quickly made his mark in debuts with the Cleveland, San Francisco and Houston symphony orchestras, performing at New York’s Carnegie Hall, 92^nd Street Y, Metropolitan Museum and Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, touring throughout the United States and appearing at the festivals of Aspen, Vail, Music@Menlo, Santa Fe and Spoleto USA.  His flourishing career has taken him to some of Europe’s most illustrious venues, including the Royal Festival, Queen Elizabeth and Wigmore halls in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Salla Verdi in Milan, Musikverein in Vienna and Salle Gaveau in Paris, as well as the Delft, Lanaudière and Verbier festivals.  In 2009, he was awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant, one of the most prestigious prizes in classical music.

Last summer, Barnatan was in residence at Spoleto Festival USA before making his Philadelphia Orchestra in Vail, Colorado, performing chamber music at Music@Menlo and playing a solo recital at the Aspen Music Festival.  Highlights of his 2010-2011 season include his return to the Houston Symphony Orchestra, with whom he made his American concerto debut in 2007, debuts with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Amsterdam Sinfonietta and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields as conductor and pianist, as well as recitals at the Concertgebouw, Chicago and Vancouver.  In New York City he performs at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall and with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at Alice Tully Hall.  London’s Wigmore Hall is a featured date with frequent chamber music partner Alisa Weilerstein, as is the Concertgebouw with Sir Roger Moore and violinists Janine Jansen and Julian Rachlin.

This past season Barnatan returned to the San Francisco Symphony, debuted with the Cleveland Orchestra at the Blossom Music Festival and curated a festival of Schubert’s late solo piano, songs and chamber music works for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.  The Schubert project has been acclaimed at the Concertgebouw, the Festival de México and at the Library of Congress.  Also, in 2009-2010, he performed at the 92^nd Street Y, with the Washington Performing Arts Society and in recital at Wigmore Hall.  Other recent recital highlights include the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Louvre Auditorium in Paris, the “Rising Stars” series at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago and the Gilmore Festival in Michigan.

As a concert soloist, Barnatan has appeared with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Porto Symphony, London Soloists Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of New Europe, Winnipeg Symphony, Haifa Symphony, Israel Chamber and Jerusalem Chamber orchestras, with such conductors as Lawrence Foster, Philippe Entremont, Nir Kabaretti, James Gaffigan, Rossen Milanov and Kynan Johns.

An avid chamber musician, Barnatan completed three seasons as a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s CMS Two.  He participated in the Society’s first iTunes digital download, released by Deutsche Grammophon.  Other chamber music performances include the complete Beethoven piano and violin sonatas at the Concertgebouw with violinist Liza Ferschtman, the Bergen International Festival in Norway, the Vancouver Chamber Music Festival, the Delft and Verbier festivals and the Lyon Musicades.  Barnatan has collaborated with such musicians as the Jerusalem String Quartet, Cho-Liang Lin, Miriam Fried, Gary Hoffman, Ralph Kirshbaum, Martin Fröst and Paul Neubauer.  He received the prestigious Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Prize in Rockport, awarded every two years to an exceptional chamber music pianist.

Barnatan’s debut CD of Schubert piano works was released on Bridge Records and greeted enthusiastically.  London’s Evening Standard wrote: “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.”  Gramophone recommended the recording in its November 2006 award issue, calling Barnatan “a born Schubertian” and praising the CD’s “sensitivity, poise and focus.”  His second CD of works for piano and violin by Beethoven and Schubert with violinist Liza Ferschtman also won many accolades, and was described by All Music Guide as “a magical listening experience.”  Barnatan has appeared on many radio and television stations throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia and Israel.

Passionate about contemporary music, Barnatan regularly commissions and performs music by living composers.  He has played works by Kaija Saariaho, George Crumb, Judith Weir, Avner Dorman, Thomas Adès, George Benjamin and others.

Born in Tel Aviv in 1979, Inon Barnatan started playing the piano at the age of three.  He made his orchestral debut at eleven and studied with Professor Victor Derevianko.  In 1997, he moved to London to study at the Royal Academy of Music with Maria Curcio (a student of the legendary Arthur Schnabel) and Christopher Elton, and Leon Fleisher was an influential mentor.  In 2006, Barnatan moved to New York City, where he resides today.

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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

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HELEN GRIME Trio for Clarinet, Viola & Piano
(2012 commission by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, World Premiere)
Todd Levy, clarinet
Teng Li, viola
Haochen Zhang, piano

DOHNÁNYI Serenade in C Major for Violin, Viola & Cello, Op. 10
Jennifer Frautschi, violin
Teng Li, viola
Joseph Johnson, cello

BRAHMS Piano Trio No. 2 in C Major, Op. 87
William Preucil, violin
Gary Hoffman, cello
Haochen Zhang, piano

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HELEN GRIME Trio for Clarinet, Viola & Piano
(2012 commission by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, World Premiere)
Todd Levy, clarinet
Teng Li, viola
Haochen Zhang, piano

DOHNÁNYI Serenade in C Major for Violin, Viola & Cello, Op. 10
Jennifer Frautschi, violin
Teng Li, viola
Joseph Johnson, cello

BRAHMS Piano Trio No. 2 in C Major, Op. 87
William Preucil, violin
Gary Hoffman, cello
Haochen Zhang, piano

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PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata No. 3 in A Minor “From the Old Notebooks,” Op. 28

RACHMANINOFF Prelude No. 16 in G Minor, Op. 23, No. 5

STRAVINSKY/PARKER Petrushka

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SCHUBERT Piano Quintet in A Major, D. 667 Trout
William Preucil, violin
Aloysia Friedmann, viola
Gary Hoffman, cello
Marji Danilow, bass
Jon Kimura Parker, piano

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BEETHOVEN String Trio in G Major, Op. 9, No. 1
William Preucil, violin
Teng Li, viola
Gary Hoffman, cello

FRANCK Sonata in A Major for Violin & Piano
Jennifer Frautschi, violin
Haochen Zhang, piano

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FAURÉ Piano Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 15
Jennifer Frautschi, violin
Teng Li, viola
Gary Hoffman, cello
Haochen Zhang, piano

SCHUBERT Piano Quintet in A Major, D. 667 “Trout”
William Preucil, violin
Aloysia Friedmann, viola
Gary Hoffman, cello
Marji Danilow, bass
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BACH Cantata No. 203 “Amore traditore”, BWV 203
Luca Pisaroni, bass baritone
Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord

BACH Concerto in C Minor for Violin & Oboe, BWV 1060
William Preucil, violin
Robert Ingliss, oboe
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Jennifer Frautschi, violin
L. P. How, violin
Aloysia Friedmann, viola
Joseph Johnson, cello
Marji Danilow, bass
Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord

BACH Cantata No. 82, “Ich Habe Genug” (“It is Enough”), BWV 82
Luca Pisaroni, bass baritone
Robert Ingliss, oboe
Jennifer Frautschi, violin
L. P. How, violin
Aloysia Friedmann, viola
Joseph Johnson, cello
Marji Danilow, bass
Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord

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BARTÓK Sonata No. 1 for Violin & Piano
Jennifer Frautschi, violin
Jon Kimura Parker, piano

SCHUBERT Four songs from Schwanengesang, D. 957
“Der Atlas”
“Aufenthalt”
“Ihr Bild”
“In Der Ferne”
Luca Pisaroni, bass baritone
Jon Kimura Parker, piano

DOHNÁNYI Piano Quintet in C Minor, Op.1
William Preucil, violin
Jennifer Frautschi, violin
Aloysia Friedmann, viola
Gary Hoffman, cello
Jon Kimura Parker, piano

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