Press
“The afternoon...showed Yarden to be a probing, incisive pianist with a beautiful sound and an impressively transparent touch...she turned in a reading with...a sense of immense majesty, tempered by gentleness and quiet grace.”
“lovingly rendered...a musical personality operating at a high level...Yarden is not one for spoilers, and that’s a good deal of her appeal.”
“In Yarden’s performance everything had been thought through and matched against a very high standard of musical judgment. Then it was played flawlessly. One can’t ask for much more.”
“What an enterprising programme from the Israeli pianist Einav Yarden...captivatingly played...she balances the dramatic and the filigree to a nicety...Yarden clearly has much to say in this repertoire and she’s beautifully recorded too.”
“From the instant her inspired fingers touched the keyboard, it was clear that [Yarden] belonged among the top-flight of her generation. Her resume is formidable… huge talent…We shouldn’t have to wait very long.”
“Einav Yarden displays an inventively intelligent Haydn, full of wit and abundance, with a delicate, varying touch.”
“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.”
“Decidedly, this pianist is a poetess.”
“Yarden proves once again being amongst the best pianists around...she ably creates an ambiance of dreamy resignation leading into troubled dismay; a masterly portrayal of opposing elements.”
“...She certainly did much more than save the evening [substituting for Daniil Trifonov at the last minute]. Grand applause from the international audience.”
“The playing is clear, precise and finely crafted, and fascinates also with a wide range of colors, delicate dynamics and beautiful relations between the movements.”
“Einav Yarden…a passionate advocate for the smallest details.”
“Her performances are lively, intelligent, and have just the right degree of expressivity.”
“...with restrained emotion that penetrates the heart, and technical perfection that by itself added another dimension to the experience of the music.”
“Einav employs superb dynamic sense, stellar pedaling technique, and exceptional ‘voice-leading’...to make the piano tell a tale.”
Einav Yarden, pianist
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 been regularly presented in recital at important venues around the world and as soloist with orchestras including the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Bradenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Bucharest Philharmonic, and Jerusalem Symphony, under conductors such as Sir Neville Marriner, Leon Botstein, Steven Sloane, Frédéric Chaslin, Mendi Rodan, among others.
Ms. Yarden’s US engagements over the past few seasons included successful solo recitals at major concert series and festivals including the 92nd Street Y and Kaufman Music Center’s Piano Dialogues series in Merkin Hall, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Gretna Music, Ravinia Music Festival, St. Louis’ Sheldon Concert Hall, and Performance Santa Fe, among others. Internationally, she performed at notable venues and festivals throughout Europe including Piano aux Jacobins in Toulouse, Ruhr Festival, La Roque d’ d’Anthéron Festival, Musis Arnhem in the Netherlands, the Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth, Musée de impressionnisms in Giverny, Verbier Festival, the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festivals and New Ross Piano Festival in Ireland. In the 2024-25 season, she returns to Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, debuts on series including Community Concerts at Second in Baltimore, the Bender JCC of Greater Washington, and Purbeck International Chamber Music Festival in England, and joins the international jury of the YPF European Piano Competition in Amsterdam.
The recent release of Einav Yarden's fourth solo CD for Challenge Classics, titled 'Father and Son', received numerous hailing reviews from important magazines, was selected as 'Album of the Week' on Radio Berlin Brandenburg (RBB) and was nominated for the prestigious Yearly-Prize of the German Record Critics' Award. Her previous albums all received highly enthusiastic acclaim on leading international magazines as Gramophone, Fono Forum, Diapason, Piano News Magazine, Fanfare Magazine, Luister Magazine, International Piano Magazine, Amadeus Magazine and many others. Her Haydn Sonatas CD was awarded the prestigious German Records Critics’ Prize (Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik - Bestenliste).
In the 2023-24 season, Ms. Yarden was featured with US orchestras including the Bellingham (WA), Racine (WI), and Rockford (IL) Symphony Orchestras, including the West Coast premiere of the rarely heard 1939 piano concerto by Holocaust victim Viktor Ullmann. Other noteworthy stages on which she has performed include the Rose Theater of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York; the Phillips Collection in Washington; the Berlin Philharmonie and the Philharmonie Chamber Music Hall, and Konzerthaus Berlin; the Beethoven-Haus Bonn; Schumannsaal in Düsseldorf; Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam; Salle Cortot and the Musée d’Orsay Auditorium in Paris, and others.
Beginning in October 2024, Ms. Yarden joins the piano faculty of the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar- Weimar’s Music University, while in parallel teaching at the University of Music in Trossingen. Among her competition awards are top prizes at the International Beethoven Piano Competition in Bonn, the Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition, and others.
Ms. Yarden was a longtime student of the legendary pianist Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory (Johns Hopkins University) in Baltimore, earning a Master of Music with high honors and a Graduate Performance Diploma. Prior to this, she received a Bachelor of Music with high honors from the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University under the instruction of Prof. Emanuel Krasovsky. She has also received piano guidance from Richard Goode, Elisso Virsaladze, and Prof. Zvi Meniker (on historical fortepianos). She is based in Berlin.
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