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Artist Interview: Pianist Yefim Bronfman on Prokofiev's Piano Sonatas

Dario Acosta
A publicity photo of pianist Yefim Bronfman

Pianist Yefim Bronfman is one of the world's premier interpeters of the music of the Russian composer Sergi Prokofiev. The acclaimed Soviet-born pianist is currently on a world tour dedicated the composers sonatas for solo piano, which has taken him from Carnegie Hall to Fresno. He performs four of the sonatas on Friday January 22 at Fresno State as part of the Philip Lorenz Memorial Keyboard Concert Series. Bronfman joined us to talk about his career and the sonatas on Clearly Classical. 

Joe Moore is the President and General Manager of KVPR / Valley Public Radio. He has led the station through major programming changes, the launch of KVPR Classical and the COVID-19 pandemic. Under his leadership the station was named California Non-Profit of the Year by Senator Melissa Hurtado (2019), and won a National Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative reporting (2022).
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