Tzimon Barto

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-five years, he has had a close musical collaboration and friendship with the conductor Christoph Eschenbach.

Tzimon Barto has always been actively involved in contemporary music and created an international composition competition for piano solo in 2006 - the Barto Prize.

Tzimon Barto's CD recordings for Ondine include keyboard pieces by Rameau (ODE 1067-2) and piano works by Haydn (ODE 1154-2) and Ravel (ODE 1095-2), as well as a Schumann disc featuring Tzimon Barto as soloist of the NDR Sinfonieorchester and as piano duo partner of Christoph Eschenbach (ODE 1162-2). Further releases on EMI and Capriccio feature concertos by Ravel, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Liszt, de Falla, Saint-Saëns, Chopin, Bartók, and Gershwin, as well as solo recitals of works by Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, and Liszt, in addition to popular encores, with music ranging from Bach to Joplin.

Tzimon Barto speaks five languages fluently, reads ancient Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, and is studying Mandarin Chinese. In addition to his career as a pianist, he is also a writer of His first book, A Lady of Greek Origin, was first published in 2001. A stage version of this book was performed in Frankfurt and Vienna, and has been released on DVD. Harold Flanders, a novel, was published in 2010.