The Complete Chopin Ballades with Inon Barnatan

Celebrated pianist and Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center alum Inon Barnatan performs all of Chopin’s challenging and beloved ballades in this can’t-miss performance.

Considered “one of the most admired pianists of his generation” (The New York Times), Inon Barnatan is renowned for his interpretations of Chopin. In this solo recital, Barnatan will perform all four of Chopin’s romantic ballades in an engaging, thoughtfully curated program that includes related piano works by Field, Barber, Szymanowski, and Adès.

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Program

This program is approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes long, inclusive of one intermission.

Performers

INON BARNATAN, piano

“One of the most admired pianists of his generation” (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 U.S. ensembles, as well as the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Zurich Tonhalle, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony, and the London, Hong Kong, and Royal Stockholm Philharmonics. 

In the 2025–26 season he performs with the Baltimore, Dallas, and Minnesota symphonies, 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 at Cal Performances, Schubert Club, the 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, to be published by Boosey & Hawkes in late 2025. 

Born in 1979, Barnatan began piano at three and made his orchestral debut at eleven. 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 is an alum of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Bowers Program. 

This program is made possible in part with generous support from
Phinney Design Group and LeChase Construction