The Pianist Series, programmed by the Teatro Pérez Galdós Canary Islands’ Foundation and the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Philharmonic Society offers the perfect opportunity to listen to Tzimon Barto, the North American piano virtuoso playing live.

Barto entered the international stage as a pianist with appearances at the Salzburg Festival and the prestigious Vienna Musikverein, at the invitation of Herbert von Karajan. Ever since, he has played with nearly every major international orchestra and director. Throughout his international career, he has had a close musical collaboration with the director Christoph Eschenbach. Tzimon Barto has also performed solo recitals with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, NDR Symphony Orchestra, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker and the Wiener Philharmoniker, to name but a few.

As well as reciting works by Liszt, Brahms and G. King, Tzimon Barto will likewise join the celebration of the bicentenary of the birth of Chopin and is to include some works by this composer.

Tzimon Barto speaks five languages fluently, is a reader of Homeric Greek, Classical Latin and Biblical Hebrew, and studies Farsi and Mandarin. In addition to his performing career as a pianist, he also dedicates part of his time to writing. His first book A lady of Greek origin, published in 2001, was recently reedited. In 2006, his native city, Eustis, founded an international competition for composers of the piano called the Barto Prize.