InonBarnatan
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Representation
About Inon
Music Director: California’s La Jolla Music Society Summerfest
“One of the most admired pianists of his generation” (New York Times), Inon Barnatan has established a unique and varied career, equally celebrated as a soloist, curator and collaborator. Barnatan is a regular soloist with many of the world’s foremost orchestras and conductors and served as the inaugural Artist-in-Association of the New York Philharmonic for three seasons.
Inon has performed with the symphony orchestras of Minnesota, Dresden, Barcelona, Stockholm, Ottawa, Innsbruck, Tenerife and Los Angeles; and recreated Beethoven’s legendary 1808 concert with the Cincinnati Symphony. Also passionate about contemporary music, he has commissioned and performed works by many living composers, premiering pieces by Thomas Adès, Sebastian Currier, Avner Dorman, and Andrew Norman, among many others. Inon has released a number of albums with Pentatone, the most recent being his Rachamninoff Reflections album, the centerpiece of which is Barnatan’s own new piano arrangement of the Symphonic Dances.
Recent concerto highlights include debuts with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Montreal Symphony Orchestras, as well as performances with Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Auckland Philharmonia, Philharmonie Zuidnederland, LA Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra and San Diego Symphony Orchestra. He gave recitals and chamber music concerts in Ostrava and Schwetzingen. The 2023/24 season sees Barnatan make return visits to Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic, and Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. He will also give recitals with Den Norske Opera, Leeds international Concert Season and Wigmore Hall.
The recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant and Lincoln Center’s Martin E. Segal Award, Barnatan is also a sought-after recitalist and chamber musician, and in 2019 he embarked on his first season as Music Director of La Jolla Music Society’s Summerfest in California, one of the foremost music festivals in the US.
Representation
Season Highlights
Video
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 with NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra & Alan Gilbert
Credit: Inon Barnatan
PlayingMendelssohn’s Rondo Capriccioso
Credit: WQXR
PlayingSchubert’s Impromptu in G-flat major, D. 899, No. 3
Credit: WQXR
PlayingLa Jolla Music Society Summer 2019
Credit: La Jolla Music Society
PlayingLincoln Centre Offstage: Mendelssohn’s Rondo Capriccioso
Credit: Lincoln Centre
PlayingAlbum: Darknesse Visible
Credit: Inon Barnatan
PlayingSchubert Sonata in C minor D.958, Mvt. I
Credit: Inon Barnatan
Playing
Photos
Selected Repertoire
Bach | Concerto No.1 in D minor • Concerto No.4 in A major • Concerto No.5 in F minor • Concerto No.7 in G minor |
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Barber | Piano Concerto, Op. 38 |
Bartók | Concerto No.3 in E major |
Beethoven | Concerto No.1 in C major • Concerto No.2 in B-flat major • Concerto No.3 in C minor • Concerto No.4 in G major • Concerto No.5 in E-flat major • Triple Concerto in C major • Violin Concerto in D major (arr. for piano) |
Brahms | Concerto No.1 in D minor • Concerto No.2 in B-flat major |
Chopin | Concerto No.1 in E minor • Concerto No.2 in F minor • Andante Spianata and Grand Polonaise Brilliante, Op. 22 |
Copland | Concerto for Piano and Orchestra |
Fletcher | Piano Concerto |
Gershwin | Piano Concerto in F • Rhapsody in Blue |
Grieg | Concerto in A minor |
Haydn | Concerto in D major • Concerto in G major |
Janáček | Concertino |
Liszt | Concerto No.1 in E-flat major |
Mendelssohn | Concerto No.1 in G minor • Concerto in D minor for Violin, Piano and String Orchestra |
Mozart | Concerto No. 8 in C major • Concerto No. 9 in E-flat major • Concerto No. 12 in A major • Concerto No. 13 in C major • Concerto No. 17 in G major • Concerto No. 19 in F major • Concerto No. 20 in D minor • Concerto No. 21 in C major • Concerto No. 22 in E-flat major • Concerto No. 23 in A major • Concerto No. 24 in C minor • Concerto No. 27 in B-flat major |
Nicolson | Piano Concerto No.2, The Haunted Ebb |
Norman | Piano Concerto, Suspend |
Poulenc | Concerto for Two Pianos in D minor |
Rachmaninov | Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor • Concerto No. 2 in C minor • Concerto No. 3 in D minor • Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini |
Ravel | Concerto in G major |
Saint-Saëns | Concerto No.2 in G minor |
Schnittke | Concerto Grosso No.6 |
Schumann | Concerto in A minor |
Shostakovich | Concerto No.1 in C minor • Concerto No.2 in F major |
Tchaikovsky | Concerto No.1 in B-flat • Concerto No.2 in G major |
Sample Programmes
Recital Programme 1
Schubert: Moments Musicaux Rachmaninoff: Moments Musicaux - Bach/Rachmaninoff: Suite after violin partita in e major Rachmaninoff/Barnatan: Symphonic Dances
Recital Programme 2
BACH Toccata in E minor HANDEL Suite in E major, “Allemande” RAMEAU Suite in A minor, “Courante” COUPERIN L'Atalante RAVEL Le Tombeau de Couperin, "Rigaudon" ADÈS Blanca Variations LIGETI Musica Ricercata, Nos. 10 & 11 BARBER Piano Sonata in E-flat minor, Op. 26 - Fuga: Allegro con spirito Interval BRAHMS Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24
News
Press
Rachmaninoff Reflections
PentatoneNov 2023Rachmaninov’s compositional processes are laid bare with unflinching clarity, and as a performer Barnatan’s fundamentally intellectual approach probes them with fascinated scrutiny. The crisp articulation at the outset engorges into thunderous, though tightly controlled, plenitude without allowing Rachmaninov’s thematic obsessiveness to overpower. And the wistful second main idea is imbued with a luminous soulfulness that never trespasses into mawkishness.
- BBC Music Magazine
- 26 December 2023
Apparent immediately is his sensitivity of touch and elegance of phrasing. There's no shortage of memorable moments during the thirty-five-minute journey. Rachmaninoff Reflections allows the pianist's artistry to be fully savoured. After he made his his solo recording debut with a Schubert album (issued on Bridge Records in 2006), Gramophone called Barnatan 'a born Schubertian.' It's certainly conceivable that the magazine might amend that to 'a born Rachmaninoffian' upon hearing this latest Pentatone set.
- Textura
- 01 December 2023