Einav Yarden

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 appeared as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, and the Rundfunkchor Berlin, Minnesota Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Bradenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Philharmonic, Symphony, and under conductors such as Sir Neville Marriner, Aldo Ceccato, Leon Botstein, Frédéric Chaslin, Stefan Blunier, Simon Halsey, Mendi Rodan and others. In 2018 she released her third CD for Challenge Classics, with solo piano works by Robert Schumann. The CD received wide international acclaim. Her 2016 CD release of Haydn sonatas on Challenge Classics, was awarded the quarterly German Record Critics’ Award (Preis der deutsche Schallplattenkritik), selected as CD-of-the-Month on the ‘Piano News’ magazine and receive enthusiastic press internationally. Her first CD for Challenge, “Oscillations”, which combines works by Beethoven and Stravinsky, also received enthusiastic international acclaim. Noteworthy stages she performed on include the Berlin Philharmonie and the Berlin Philharmonie Chamber Music Hall, the Beethoven-Haus Bonn, Markgräfliches Opernhaus in Bayreuth, Berlin Konzerthaus, the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, the 92nd Street Y in New York, Phillips Collection in Washington DC, Rose Theater at Lincoln Center, the Schumannsaal in Düsseldorf, and in Paris’s Salle Cortot, the Musée d’Orsay Auditorium, the Grand Salon of the Hotel des Invalides and others. Important festival participations include the Ruhr Piano Festival (Germany), Ravinia Festival (USA), The Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival (Israel), La Roque d’Anthéron International Piano Festival, Menton Festival and Flâneries Musicales de Reims Festival (France), Verbier Festival (Switzerland), Upper-Galilee Chamber Music Festival (Israel) and others. Among her competition awards are top prizes at the International Beethoven Piano Competition in Bonn, at the Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition and at the 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 Israeli work (performing Avner Dorman’s sonata, written for her). Einav Yarden taught chamber music from 2016-18 at the University for Music Freiburg and served as part-time substitute professor of piano at the Music Conservatory of Lucerne University for the fall 2018-19 semester. Between the summers of 2012 and 2017 she was a Collaborative Pianist at Ravinia Festival’s Steans Music Institute in the USA. A passionate chamber musician, she devotes herself regularly to collaborations with other musicians and enthusiastically incorporates non-standard repertoire into her programs. Her performances have been broadcast, among others, on BBC (England), Deutsches Welle, WDR, and Deutschlandradio Kultur (Germany), France Musique (France), WQXR (New York), WFMT (Chicago), MPR (Minnesota), WBJC (Baltimore), WPR (Wisconsin), CBC (Canada), NPO Radio 4 (Netherlands) and Israel’s Kan Kol Hamusica. She was a longtime student of the renowned pianist Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory (Johns Hopkins University) in Baltimore, USA, earning a Master of Music with high honors and a Graduate Performance Diploma. Prior to that she received a Bachelor of Music with high honors from the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at the under the instruction of Prof. Emanuel Krasovsky. Other piano guidance includes that of Elisso Virsaladze, Richard Goode and Prof. Zvi Meniker (on historical fortepianos). She is based in Berlin, Germany.