Pianist Inon Barnatan is noted for performances of contemporary music as well as of Schubert and Beethoven. He is a distinguished chamber player. In 2009, Barnatan received the Avery Fisher Career Grant. He made his recording debut in 2006 with an album of Schubert piano works, earning praise from Gramophone as a "Schubertian from birth." In 2007, Barnatan and violinist Liza Ferschtman issued an album of Beethoven and Schubert works for violin and piano. Barnatan's 2012 album Darknesse Visible landed on a New York Times ten best list. In 2014, Barnatan became the New York Philharmonic's first Artist in Association. He has issued a complete cycle of Beethoven's piano concertos with conductor Alan Gilbert and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, and in 2021, Barnatan released the solo album Time Traveler's Suite.