Tzimon Barto
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Short Biography
He had his international breakthrough in the mid-1980s, when he appeared at the Vienna Musikverein and the Salzburg Festival at the invitation of Herbert von Karajan, and has since performed with nearly every internationally renowned orchestra. During his 25-year career he has often collaborated with conductor Christoph Eschenbach.
Tzimon Barto has recorded numerous piano works on CD: after releases with works by Rameau and Ravel for the Ondine label, he has published most recently a CD with selected Haydn sonatas as well as a recording, dedicated to Schumann, which features Tzimon Barto as soloist of the NDR Sinfonierorchester and as duo partner of Christoph Eschenbach (piano).
In 2006, his home town of Eustis, in north-central Florida, founded an international composition competition for piano solo, called the "Barto Prize."
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. His first book "a lady of Greek origin" was published in 2001, and recently re-published by Jan Oidium Press. A stage version of this book was performed in Frankfurt and Vienna, and has been issued as a DVD by Oidium. Oidium Press has also published  "Harold Flanders", a novel, in the spring of 2010.


2011/2012

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