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ABOUT EINAV YARDEN, PIANIST
Pianist Einav Yarden is praised for her “imagination and exceptionally vivid playing…sense of immense majesty, tempered by gentleness and quiet grace” (The Washington Post, USA), and “glistening rapture…ingenious humor” (Tagesspiegel, Germany). She has been regularly presented in recital at important venues around the world and as soloist with orchestras including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (and the Rundfunkchor Berlin), Minnesota Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Bradenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Bucharest Philharmonic, and Jerusalem Symphony, under conductors such as Sir Neville Marriner, Leon Botstein, Steven Sloane, Frédéric Chaslin, Stefan Blunier, Aldo Ceccato, Mendi Rodan, and Simon Halsey, among others.
Her US engagements over the past few seasons included successful solo recitals at major series including the 92nd Street Y in NYC, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and Performance Santa Fe. In the 2021-22 season, she returns to the US for the first time since 2019, with performances at The Sheldon in St. Louis, the Ravinia Festival, and a tour of California. In July 2018, she a gave a solo performance at the Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth, subbing in for the international star Daniil Trifonov with just a few hours’ notice, and left the audience “deeply overjoyed and impressed” (PIANONews, Germany). Other noteworthy stages on which she has performed include the Rose Theater of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York; the Phillips Collection in Washington; the Berlin Philharmonie and the Philharmonie Chamber Music Hall, and Konzerthaus Berlin; the Beethoven-Haus Bonn; Schumannsaal in Düsseldorf; Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam; Salle Cortot and the Musée d’Orsay Auditorium in Paris, and others.
In 2018 Einav Yarden released her third CD for Challenge Classics, with solo piano works by Schumann. The recording received widespread international acclaim. Her 2016 album release of Haydn sonatas on Challenge Classics was awarded the quarterly German Record Critics’ Award (Pres der Deutsche Schallplattenkritik), selected as CD-of-the-Month for Germany’s leading PIANONews magazine, and received enthusiastic press internationally. Her first release with Challenge Classics, “Oscillations”, which combines works by Beethoven and Stravinsky, also received international praise. Her performances and recordings have been broadcast on prominent classical stations in the US, Canada, England, Israel, and throughout most of Europe.
A passionate chamber musician, she devotes herself regularly to collaborations with other musicians and enthusiastically incorporates unique repertoire into her programs. Major festival appearances include the Ravinia Festival (USA), Ruhr Piano Festival (Germany), Verbier Festival (Switzerland), La Roque d’Anthéron International Piano Festival, Menton Festival, and Flâneries Musicales de Reims Festival (France), Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival, and Upper-Galilee Chamber Music Festival (Israel), and others.
Einav Yarden has held teaching positions at University for Music Freiburg, the Music Conservatory of Lucerne University, and most recently at the Frankfurt University for Music and Performing Arts (Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt). Between the summers of 2012 and 2017, she was a Collaborative Pianist at the Ravinia Festival’s esteemed Steans Music Institute. Among her competition awards are top prizes at the International Beethoven Piano Competition in Bonn, the Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition, Canada’s Esther Honens International Piano Competition, as well as top prizes at the Aviv Competitions in Israel, where she was awarded the Guralnik and the Zilbermann Prize for best performance of a contemporary work, performing Avner Dorman’s Piano Sonata No. 2, which was written for her.
She was a longtime student of the renowned pianist Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory (Johns Hopkins University) in Baltimore, earning a Master of Music with high honors and a Graduate Performance Diploma. Prior to this, she received a Bachelor of Music with high honors from the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University under the instruction of Prof. Emanuel Krasovsky. She has also received piano guidance from Richard Goode, Elisso Virsaladze, and Prof. Zvi Meniker (on historical fortepianos). She is currently based in Berlin.