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Label Challenge Classics |
UPC 0608917277623 |
Catalogue number CC 72776 |
Release date 18 May 2018 |
"Decidedly, this pianist is a poet."
ARTAMAG', 22-2-2019
Prachtige muziek uit een moeilijke periode
Begenadigd pianiste met vloeiend spel
Einav Yarden werd in 1978 in Israel geboren. Ze studeerde onder anderen bij de Amerikaanse pianist en dirigent Leon Fleisher. Als soliste trad ze op met gerenommeerde orkesten en dirigenten. Einav is een enthousiast kamermuzikant en wordt regelmatig voor verschillende muziekprojecten uitgenodigd. Einav Yarden wordt geprezen om haar “uitzonderlijk levendige articulatie…onderzoekende, verhalende, vloeiende spel” (General Anzeiger, Duitsland) en haar “fonkelende vervoering…ingenieuze humor” (Tagesspiegel, Duitsland).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, Radio Symphony Orchestra of Berlin and the Rundfunkchor Berlin, Minnesota Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Bucharest Philharmonic, Jerusalem Symphony, Plovdiv Philharmonic, the Israel Symphony Rishon Le-Zion among others, under conductors as Sir Neville Marriner, Aldo Ceccato, Leon Botstein, Frédéric Chaslin, Stefan Blunier, Horia Andreescu, David Greilsammer, Simon Halsey, Mendi Rodan and others.
Her 2016 solo 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 received enthusiastic press from international publications. In 2013 she released her first solo CD for Challenge, called “Oscillations”. The CD received much international acclaim, and it combines works by Beethoven and Stravinsky.
Among the stages she performed on are the Berlin Philharmonie and the Berlin Philharmonie Chamber Music Hall, the Beethoven-Haus Bonn, Berlin Konzerthaus, the Phillips Collection in Washington DC, Rose Theater at Lincoln Center, 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 prizes is the Third Prize at the 2009 International Beethoven Piano Competition in Bonn, a Prize at the 2006 Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition and the First Prize at the 2001 Aviv Competitions in Israel, where she was awarded the Guralnik Piano Prize as well as the Zilbermann Prize for best performance of a contemporary Israeli work, and other prizes. Between 1996-2005, she was a recipient of the AICF scholarships, an important scholarship institution in Israel.
A passionate chamber musician, she devotes herself regularly to collaborations with other musicians and she enthusiastically incorporates non-standard repertoire into her programs. In 2016 she joined the adjunct faculty at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, teaching chamber music. Between the summers of 2012-2017 she was a collaborative pianist at Ravinia Festival’s Steans Music Institute in the USA.
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), QUSC (Los Angeles), WBJC (Baltimore), WPR (Wisconsin), CBC (Canada), NPO Radio 4 (Netherlands), and on Israel’s Kol Hamusica.
In 2005 she completed four years of study with the renowned pianist Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory (Johns Hopkins University), 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 Tel Aviv University under the instruction of Prof. Emanuel Krasovsky, and her early education was with Hadassa Gonen at the Israel Conservatory Tel Aviv. Other piano guidance includes that of Elisso Virsaladze, Richard Goode and Prof. Zvi Meniker (on historical fortepianos). She is currently based in Berlin, Germany.
Decidedly, this pianist is a poet.
ARTAMAG', 22-2-2019
She executes these pieces with such depth and panache that it’s impossible not to listen with bated breath. Einav Yarden is a captivating pianist with a clear vision and a wonderful, convincing sound.
Piano News Magazine, 07-9-2018
It should be emphasized that, on the threshold of this admirable and splendidly recorded piece, Fantasiestücke op. 111 sound as strange, enigmatic, fleeting and sombre as they should be.
Diapason, 07-9-2018
She illustrates long, elegant musical lines, and in fact, the measuredness of her expression and sensitivity of her pianistic colors, emphasizes the wealth of imagination and unique magic of the pieces...
Haaretz Newspaper, 10-8-2018
Yarden always shows her intelligence in repertoire choice, besides the indisputable qualities as a pianist. This record turns out to be especially close to her for stylistical kinship and deep understanding of the compositions.
Amadeus Magazine, 01-7-2018
Poetry, passion, intimacy - these are terms that Einav Yarden likes to use in connection with Schumann, bundled in the generic term: the 'Fantastic
Fono Forum, 15-6-2018
In Einav Yarden's way of playing Schumann, the vocal is always in the foreground
Fono Forum, 15-6-2018
In all the capricious passages, as a result of Schumann's great mood swings and depressions, she manages to guard the long lines in the music with her controlled play, while in the serene and the more light-hearted moments she takes the time everywhere.
Mania, 08-6-2018
The interpretation of the young Israeli pianist Einav Yarden lies in the right center between words, pathos and ethos… she fancies fancifully over the keys…”.
De Standaard, 06-6-2018
Yarden proves once again being amongst the best pianists around, delivering here an attractive, well balanced recital. [...] A deeply moving account.
HRAudio, 04-6-2018
Her new Schumann CD is a jewel. Yarden not only paints Schumann's free spirit, she can also handle the delusions of his later years.
De Volkskrant, 27-4-2018
4**** Her new Schumann cd is a gem. Yarden not only paints Schumann’s free spirit very accurately, but also handles the delusions from his later life extremely well.
De Volkskrant, 26-4-2018
The new Schumann CD of the Israeli pianist Einav Yarden for Challenge Classics. Heavenly!
Her technique and acclaimed piano playing, at times vigorous and articulated, at times soft and intimately poetic, are here (again) expressed wonderfully.
Stretto, 12-4-2018