
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 orchestras including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Minnesota Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Bradenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt.
The recent CD release of Einav Yarden on Challenge Classics, titled 'Father and Son', received numerous hailing reviews from important magazines, was selected as 'Album of the Week' on Radio Berlin Brandenburg, and was nominated for the prestigious Yearly-Prize of the German Record Critics' Award. Her previous albums received highly enthusiastic acclaim on leading international magazines as Gramophone, Fono Forum, Diapason, Piano News Magazine, Fanfare Magazine, International Piano Magazine. Her Haydn CD was awarded the prestigious German Records Critics’ Prize.
Important stages on which she performed include the Berlin Philharmonie and the Philharmonie Chamber Music Hall, Konzerthaus Berlin, Lincoln Center, 92nd Street Y and Merkin Hall in NYC, Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam, Beethoven-Haus Bonn, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Salle Cortot in Paris, the Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth, and others.
Einav Yarden is a professor of piano at the University of Music in Weimar, Germany. In parallel, she is teaching at the Trossingen University of Music in Germany. A passionate chamber musician, she devotes herself to collaborations with others and enthusiastically incorporates unique repertoire into her programs. Major festival appearances include the Ruhr Piano Festival, La Roque d’Anthéron International Piano Festival, Festival International Piano aux Jacobins, Ravinia Festival, Verbier Festival, Menton Festival, the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival, Flâneries Musicales de Reims and others.
She studied with the legendary pianist Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, and prior to that she studied at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University under the instruction of Emanuel Krasovsky. She is based in Berlin, Germany.