Tzimon barto rachmaninoff biography
Born and raised in Central Florida, Tzimon Barto received his first piano lessons by his paternal grandmother at the age of five.!
Barto was born Johnny Barto Smith, Jr., on January 2, , in Eustis, FL. At 5 he began taking piano lessons from his grandmother, and at 9 he wrote an opera.
A colorful, surpassingly varied range of expressive elements from feather-light melodic lines to expressive chord series characterize his performance.
As one of the foremost American pianists, Tzimon Barto performs on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean and in Asia.
His international breakthrough occurred in the mid-1980’s when he performed at the Wiener Musikverein and the Salzburger Festspiele on invitation of Herbert von Karajan. Tzimon Barto has since played with every major international orchestra and is regularly invited to many festivals.
Wolfgang Rihm dedicated his Second Piano Concerto to Tzimon Barto.
The piece was premiere