Yefim Bronfman


Yefim Naumovich Bronfman is a Soviet-born Israeli-American pianist.

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. He became an American citizen in 1989.
Bronfman's teachers were Arie Vardi, Rudolf Firkušný, Leon Fleisher, and Rudolf Serkin.