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Management with Askonas Holt for Europe, Asia, Australia & New Zealand Partner managers: Japan: M.Hirasa Ltd. North & South America: Opus 3

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.

Inon is based in New York

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Representation

Management with Askonas Holt for Europe, Asia, Australia & New Zealand Partner managers: Japan: M.Hirasa Ltd. North & South America: Opus 3

Season Highlights

Oct 2024
Wigmore Hall, London
Solo Recital Works by: RACHMANINOV, RAVEL, STRAVINSKY & THOMAS ADÈS
Dec 2024
Jacobs Music Centre, San Diego
San Diego Symphony Rafael Payare, Conductor SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Major, Op. 102 SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 35
Mar 2025
Symphony Hall, Boston
Boston Symphony Orchestra Eun Sun Kim, Conductor BARTÓK: Piano Concerto No. 3

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Selected Repertoire

BachConcerto No.1 in D minor   •   Concerto No.4 in A major   •   Concerto No.5 in F minor   •   Concerto No.7 in G minor
BarberPiano Concerto, Op. 38
BartókConcerto No.3 in E major
BeethovenConcerto 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)
BrahmsConcerto No.1 in D minor   •   Concerto No.2 in B-flat major
ChopinConcerto No.1 in E minor   •   Concerto No.2 in F minor   •   Andante Spianata and Grand Polonaise Brilliante, Op. 22
CoplandConcerto for Piano and Orchestra
FletcherPiano Concerto
GershwinPiano Concerto in F   •   Rhapsody in Blue
GriegConcerto in A minor
HaydnConcerto in D major   •   Concerto in G major
JanáčekConcertino
LisztConcerto No.1 in E-flat major
MendelssohnConcerto No.1 in G minor   •   Concerto in D minor for Violin, Piano and String Orchestra
MozartConcerto 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
NicolsonPiano Concerto No.2, The Haunted Ebb
NormanPiano Concerto, Suspend
PoulencConcerto for Two Pianos in D minor
RachmaninovConcerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor   •   Concerto No. 2 in C minor   •   Concerto No. 3 in D minor   •   Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
RavelConcerto in G major
Saint-SaënsConcerto No.2 in G minor
SchnittkeConcerto Grosso No.6
SchumannConcerto in A minor
ShostakovichConcerto No.1 in C minor   •   Concerto No.2 in F major
TchaikovskyConcerto 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

    Pentatone
    Nov 2023
    • Rachmaninov’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.

    • 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.