“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. He 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.
As a soloist, Barnatan is a regular performer with many of the world's greatest orchestras and conductors. In the 2024-25 season, he appears in the U.S. with New Jersey Symphony and Xian Zhang, Boston Symphony Orchestra and Eun Sun Kim, Naples Philharmonic and Andreas Ottensamer, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Peter Oundjian, New Century Chamber Orchestra and Daniel Hope, and multiple returns to San Diego Symphony with Music Director Raphael Payare. He appears internationally with Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and Osmo Vänskä, Auckland Philharmonia and Elena Schwarz, and Luxembourg Philharmonic and Teddy Abrams. Highlights in the 2023-24 season included New York Philharmonic at Bravo! Vail Music Festival, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Colorado Symphony, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, and London Philharmonic Orchestra. Barnatan was in recital at Spivey Hall, The Phillips Collection, Leeds International Piano Series, Wigmore Hall, The Norwegian Opera and Ballet, and The 92nd Street Y.
In November 2024, Barnatan will appear in recital with cellist Alisa Weilerstein at Stanford Live and Celebrity Series of Boston in celebration of their forthcoming Brahms duo album on Pentatone. November 2023 saw the release of his album, Rachmaninoff Reflections, offering some of the composer's most cherished piano works, uncluding his Moments musicaux, Prelude in G-Sharp Minor, and Barnatan's own arrangement of the Vocalise. The centerpiece of this project is Barnatan's breathtaking new piano arrangement of the Symphonic Dances which will be published by Boosey & Hawkes in 2025.
Born in Tel Aviv in 1979, Barnatan started playing the piano at the age of three and made his orchestral debut at eleven. His musical education connects him to some of the 20th century’s most illustrious pianists and teachers: he studied first with Professor Victor Derevianko, a student of the Russian master Heinrich Neuhaus, before moving to London in 1997 to study at the Royal Academy of Music with Christopher Elton and Maria Curcio, a student of the legendary Artur Schnabel. The late Leon Fleisher was also an influential teacher and mentor. Barnatan is a recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and Lincoln Center’s Martin E. Segal Award, and is an alum of CMS’s Bowers Program.