Six-time Grammy-nominated virtuosic pianist Yefim Bronfman will perform a program “celebrating Beethoven’s legacy” May 1 at UB.

The concert, which will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, North Campus, is presented by the Department of Music and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. It is part of the music department’s Slee Visiting Artist Series.

The program:

Schubert: Sonata in A minor Op. 143

Schumann: Faschingsschwank aus Wien

Salonen: Sisar

Chopin: Nocturne Op. 27 No. 2

Prokofiev: Sonata No. 7

Tickets are $20 and can be purchased through Ticketmaster, at the Center for the Arts box office from noon to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and at the Slee Hall box office an hour before concert time. UB students with a valid ID receive one complimentary ticket and may pick it up at the box office right before the concert.

Internationally recognized as one of today's most acclaimed and admired pianists, Bronfman stands among a handful of artists regularly sought by festivals, orchestras, conductors and recital series. His commanding technique, power and exceptional lyrical gifts are consistently acknowledged by the press and audiences alike.

Widely praised for his solo, chamber and orchestral recordings, Bronfman has been nominated for six Grammy awards, winning in 1997 with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic for their recording of the three Bartok Piano Concerti.

Born in Tashkent in the Soviet Union, Bronfman immigrated to Israel with his family in 1973, where he studied with pianist Arie Vardi, head of the Rubin Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University. In the United States, he studied at The Juilliard School, Marlboro School of Music and the Curtis Institute of Music, under Rudolf Firkusny, Leon Fleisher and Rudolf Serkin.

A recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize, one of the highest honors given to American instrumentalists, in 2010 he was further honored as the recipient of the Jean Gimbel Lane prize in piano performance from Northwestern University and in 2015 with an honorary doctorate from the Manhattan School of Music.