Recognised as one of the foremost American pianists of his generation, Tzimon Barto has been giving exciting and highly acclaimed performances on both sides of the Atlantic. Born and raised in Florida, Tzimon Barto received his first piano lessons from his grandmother at the age of five, and later attended the Juilliard School of Music, studying piano with Adele Marcus. While at Juilliard he won the Gina Bachauer Competition two consecutive years in a row. Additionally, Tzimon Barto was a conducting fellow and coach for the American Opera Center. At the Tanglewood Institute, he received the 'Most Outstanding Student Award', presented by Gunther Schuller for his achievements as a young conductor.

Tzimon Barto's international breakthrough followed in the mid-1980s, when he appeared at the Vienna Musikverein and the Salzburg Festival at the invitation of Herbert von Karajan. Tzimon Barto has since performed with nearly every major international orchestra, including the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland and Philadelphia orchestras, and the Chicago, Houston, National, and San Francisco symphonies, as well as the Mariinsky Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, Dresden Staatskapelle, Hamburg NDR Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, ONE Madrid, and NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo. Tzimon Barto is a frequent guest at major festivals such as the Ravinia Festival in the USA or the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia. For twenty years, he has had a close musical collaboration and friendship with the conductor Christoph Eschenbach. Tzimon Barto's numerous CD recordings include concertos by Ravel, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Liszt, de Falla, Saint-Saëns, Chopin, Bartók, and Gershwin, as well as solo recitals of works by Chopin, Schumann Liszt, and a disc of popular encores, featuring music ranging from Bach to Joplin. Ondine released two discs featuring piano pieces by Jean-Philippe Rameau (ODE 1067-2) and Maurice Ravel (ODE 1095-2).

In addition to his performing career, Tzimon Barto speaks four languages fluently, is a reader of Homeric Greek, Classical Latin and Biblical Hebrew, studies Farsi and Mandarin, and writes poetry. A stage version of his first book, "a lady of Greek origin", premiered in 2003 in Frankfurt. A new collection of poems and a novel will be released in 2007.


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Künstlersekretariat Schoerke
Mark Stephan Buhl Artists Management