Inon Barnatan
Piano
Sonata in A Major, D. 959 Franz Schubert
Allegro (1797 - 1828)
Andantino
Scherzo: Allegro vivace
Rondo: Allegretto
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Two Nocturnes, Op. 48 Frederic Chopin
No. 1 in C Minor (1810 - 1849)
No. 2 in F-sharp minor
Darkness Visible Thomas Ades
(1971 - )
La Valse Maurice Ravel
(1875 - 1937)
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Biography of Inon Barnatan
The flourishing career of pianist Inon Barnatan takes him to music centers and festivals around the world. Rapidly gaining recognition for his communicative music making, in April 2009 he was awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant. This past summer’s concert highlights included a return engagement with the San Francisco Symphony, his debut with the Cleveland Orchestra, and performances at Aspen, Vail, Santa Fe, Bridgehampton, Rockport and St. Denis festivals. His debut CD of music by Schubert has received great critical praise and he curated a project of Schubert’s late solo piano and chamber music works, presented by CMS this season; the project has been acclaimed at the Concertgebouw, the Festival de México, and at the Library of Congress. Also in 2009-2010, he performs at the 92nd Street Y, the Kennedy Center, and London’s Wigmore Hall. Recent recital highlights include the Metropolitan Museum, the Louvre, the “Rising Stars” series at the Ravinia Festival, and Michigan’s Gilmore Festival. Barnatan, who made his American concerto debut in 2007 with the Houston Symphony, has performed at Carnegie Hall, Music@Menlo, the Delft, Lanaudière and Verbier Festivals, as well as the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Salla Verdi in Milan, the Royal Festival and Queen Elizabeth Halls in London, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Arts Theatre in Shanghai, and Salle Gaveau in Paris. Inon Barnatan has just completed three seasons as a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's CMS Two program.