Ena Barton
Born in Santiago, Chile, pianist Ena Bronstein Barton began her performing career in her native
country. After graduating from Escuela Moderna de Música, and Universidad de Chile and
winning a national piano competition she traveled to New York to study with Claudio Arrau and
Rafael de Silva. Her New York debut at Town Hall was received with critical acclaim.
Since then, Ms. Barton’s career had taken her across the United States, back to South
America, to Europe, the Near and Far East, Australia and New Zealand.
Among her engagements abroad she has performed as soloist with orchestras in Jerusalem,
Luxembourg, Rome, Santiago de Chile and Lima, Peru.
In the Spring of 2003 she gave a recital and master class as part of the centennial celebration
of Claudio Arrau’s birthday, held in New York City.
Ms. Barton has received many honors throughout her career, including an invitation to attend
the Casals Festival, a Martha Baird Rockefeller Grant that resulted in a solo recital at Lincoln
Center’s Alice Tully Hall, and the Distinguished Artists Piano Award by Artists International.
Her chamber music performances have included appearances with violinist Jaime Laredo and
the Guarneri Quartet.
Her piano partnership with pianist Phyllis Alpert Lehrer spans over 35 years.
The Barton - Lehrer Duo has performed extensively throughout the United States. Among
others, they performed at the Music Teachers 2010 National Conference in Albuquerque, New
Mexico and at the 2016 MTNA Conference, where they presented a program of piano duets in
connection with their newly released CD titled “Drama and Dialogue”.
Ena Barton has been a teacher all her life. She taught at California State University at Fresno
for 13 years. She was artist-in-residence at Monterey Peninsula College in California and has
conducted master classes at the University of Veracruz in Xalapa, Mexico, Santiago de Chile
Curitiba, Brazil and Lima, Peru.
She was a member of the piano faculty of Westminster College of the Arts of Rider University
from 1983 until 2018 and has been part of Westminster Conservatory since 1982, where she is
on the faculty and where she served as Piano Department Head for over thirty years.
country. After graduating from Escuela Moderna de Música, and Universidad de Chile and
winning a national piano competition she traveled to New York to study with Claudio Arrau and
Rafael de Silva. Her New York debut at Town Hall was received with critical acclaim.
Since then, Ms. Barton’s career had taken her across the United States, back to South
America, to Europe, the Near and Far East, Australia and New Zealand.
Among her engagements abroad she has performed as soloist with orchestras in Jerusalem,
Luxembourg, Rome, Santiago de Chile and Lima, Peru.
In the Spring of 2003 she gave a recital and master class as part of the centennial celebration
of Claudio Arrau’s birthday, held in New York City.
Ms. Barton has received many honors throughout her career, including an invitation to attend
the Casals Festival, a Martha Baird Rockefeller Grant that resulted in a solo recital at Lincoln
Center’s Alice Tully Hall, and the Distinguished Artists Piano Award by Artists International.
Her chamber music performances have included appearances with violinist Jaime Laredo and
the Guarneri Quartet.
Her piano partnership with pianist Phyllis Alpert Lehrer spans over 35 years.
The Barton - Lehrer Duo has performed extensively throughout the United States. Among
others, they performed at the Music Teachers 2010 National Conference in Albuquerque, New
Mexico and at the 2016 MTNA Conference, where they presented a program of piano duets in
connection with their newly released CD titled “Drama and Dialogue”.
Ena Barton has been a teacher all her life. She taught at California State University at Fresno
for 13 years. She was artist-in-residence at Monterey Peninsula College in California and has
conducted master classes at the University of Veracruz in Xalapa, Mexico, Santiago de Chile
Curitiba, Brazil and Lima, Peru.
She was a member of the piano faculty of Westminster College of the Arts of Rider University
from 1983 until 2018 and has been part of Westminster Conservatory since 1982, where she is
on the faculty and where she served as Piano Department Head for over thirty years.