Inon Barnatan

“One of the most admired pianists of his generation” (The New York Times), Inon Barnatan has established a uniquely varied career, celebrated as a soloist, curator, and collaborator.

As a soloist, Barnatan performs regularly with leading orchestras and conductors worldwide. He was the inaugural Artist-in-Association of the New York Philharmonic and has appeared with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, the BBC Proms with the BBC Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Chicago and Boston symphonies, and most major US ensembles, as well as the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Zurich Tonhalle, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony, and the London, Hong Kong, and Royal Stockholm Philharmonics.

During the 2025–26 season, he performs with the Baltimore, Dallas, and Minnesota symphony orchestras, gives solo recitals at Tippet Rise Art Center and Wigmore Hall, and takes part in the Complete Etudes of Philip Glass project at the Krannert Center and the University Musical Society.

As curator and chamber musician, Barnatan is Music Director of La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest in California—one of the country’s leading music festivals—with his contract now extended through 2030. This season, he continues his close partnerships with cellist Alisa Weilerstein in duo recitals at Ravinia, Spivey Hall, and the McCallum Theatre; and with soprano Renée Fleming today at Cal Performances, as well as at the Schubert Club, Philharmonic Society of Orange County, and Lyric Opera of Chicago.

His latest solo album, Rachmaninoff Reflections, features some of the composer’s most cherished piano works alongside Barnatan’s new solo arrangement of the Symphonic Dances, published by Boosey & Hawkes late last year.

Born in 1979, Barnatan began piano studies at age three and made his orchestral debut at 11. His most influential teachers and mentors included Victor Derevianko, Christopher Elton, Maria Curcio, and Leon Fleisher. He is a recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and Lincoln Center’s Martin E. Segal Award and a graduate of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Bowers Program.