Tzimon Barto

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Tzimon Barto (born January 2, 1963 in Eustis (Florida) ; maiden name Johnny Barto Smith ) is an American concert pianist , conductor and author .

Life

Barto grew up in Eustis. He began to play the piano under the guidance of his grandmother at the age of five. Barto also credits his grandmother for sparking his interest in opera . In order to be able to understand the texts of the operas, he began to study the languages ​​in which they were written. At the age of 14 he learned German and French. Today he speaks five languages ​​fluently ( English , German , French , Italian and Spanish ). He also reads ancient Greek , Latin and Hebrew . Barto studied piano at the Juilliard School in New York with Adele Marcus .

Barto now lives in central Florida.

In addition to his work as a concert pianist, he has occasionally also conducted. He has performed with Christoph Eschenbach in concerts in which Barto and Eschenbach alternately played and conducted the two piano concertos by Johannes Brahms.

More recently he has also worked as a writer and writer of poetry cycles under the name of Barto Smith. His project called The Stelae is in the foreground. After its completion, this work will consist of 3367 poems and prose segments, corresponding to the number of occurrences of the name of God together with the corresponding verb in the third person in the Bible .

This complete work also includes his first volume of poetry entitled “A Lady Of Greek Origin”, which was published in 2001 by Radius Verlag in Stuttgart in two languages. The German translation of the text is by Christoph Eschenbach and Antje Landshoff-Ellermann . The work tells the true story of a drug addict, innocently divorced woman whose three children drowned. The play also made it onto the theater stage. In 2003 it was premiered in Frankfurt am Main with Bettina Kaminski as Lady, directed by Sven-Eric Bechtolf and in 2005 it was revived as part of the KlangBogen Festival in Vienna (director: Reinhard Hinzpeter ).

One of his literary role models is Ezra Pound .

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Discography
  • Jean-Philippe Rameau, A Basket of Wild Strawberries, A Selection of keyboard Jewels, ONDINE ODE1067-2
  • at EMI:
    • Piano concerts: Pfitzner, Rachmaninoff, Prokofieff, Bartók, Gershwin, Liszt, Carnival of the Animals / Saint-Saëns; Nights in Spanish Gardens / de Falla
    • Solo albums: Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, Encores, Ravel
literature
  • The Stelae , a twelve-part cycle with a total of 3367 poem and prose segments.
  • A Woman of Greek Origin , published in 2001 as the first part of The Stelae . Performed as a stage version in 2003 in Frankfurt and in 2005 in Vienna.
  • Dot - A lyrical scene , published in German translation in 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Program booklet Deutschlandradio April to June 2015
personal data
SURNAME Barto, Tzimon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Smith, Johnny Barto (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American concert pianist, author, bodybuilder
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd January 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Eustis , Florida , USA