Evgeny Kissin
Born: 10th October 1971, Moscow, Russian SFSR
Nationality: Russian
Artist's website: https://www.kissin.org/
Evgeny Kissin was born in Moscow in 1971 and began learning the piano at the age of six; he made his concerto debut at 10 and his recording debut at 12 (in the Chopin piano concertos with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra). By the late 1980s he was performing widely across Europe, and his debut at Carnegie Hall in 1990 (with a programme of Schumann, Liszt and Prokofiev) was recorded for RCA and hailed by Gramophone as ‘outstanding, confirming that what we have here is no mere Wunderkind but an established artist of the first order’.
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Recording of the Week,
Evgeny Kissin performs Beethoven piano sonatas
James is mightily impressed by a selection of Beethoven's piano music from Evgeny Kissin, including the Moonlight and Les Adieux sonatas.