Yevgeny Sudbin piano

Yevgeny Sudbin has been hailed by the Daily Telegraph (UK) as “potentially one of the greatest pianists of the 21st century.” In the midst of a seven-year and fourteen-album collaboration with BIS Records, his recordings have met with overwhelming critical acclaim. The International Record Review stated that Sudbin’s Rachmaninoff recording “confirms him as one of the most important pianistic talents of our time.” His release of works by Scriabin was chosen CD of the Year by London’s Daily Telegraph, CD of the Month by BBC Music Magazine, and was awarded the MIDEM Classical Award for best solo instrument CD at Cannes. Sudbin has performed in many of the world’s finest venues, both in recital and with orchestra.

In the 2011-12 season Yevgeny Sudbin continues his North American career performing works of Scriabin with New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, and Mozart with the Minnesota Orchestra and the Vancouver Symphony. He also performs in recital in the UK, Netherlands and Spain. His 2010-11 season extended his international reach with a tour in Asia, including performances in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore and Taiwan. He performed recitals in Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, in Milan, and on tour in North America with stops in Montreal, Seattle, Vancouver and California.

His latest projects for BIS have been an all-Chopin recording and the recently released Rachmaninoff-Paganini Variations with the Singapore Symphony. He records Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the symphony in summer 2012. In 2008-09, Sudbin embarked on recording the complete cycle of Beethoven piano concertos with the Minnesota Orchestra and Osmo Vänskä, the first of which, concertos no. 4 and 5, received consistently rave reviews. In the coming seasons he continues recording the remaining concertos. Sudbin has also recorded Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No. 4, in its original 1926 version, with the North Carolina Symphony under Grant Llewellyn; the work is paired with Medtner’s Concerto No. 2, recorded with the same orchestra. His previous recordings for BIS of Haydn, Scarlatti, Scriabin, and Rachmaninoff, have also met with great acclaim.

Sudbin has appeared with many of the world’s most distinguished orchestras. Engagements include performances of Scriabin’s Piano Concerto in F Sharp Minor, with the London Philharmonic under Neeme Järvi, and Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Philharmonia, under Sokhiev, both at the Royal Festival Hall in London. He performed Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No. 1 with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra and Beethoven’s Concerto No. 4 with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, both under Osmo Vänskä. Recent North American engagements include performances with the Minnesota Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, and North Carolina Symphony. In Europe, he has appeared with the Warsaw Philharmonic, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and the Tampere Philharmonic in Finland. Sudbin’s performance of Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No. 1 at the 2008 BBC Proms was described by the Daily Telegraph as “sublime.”

Recent recitals include appearances at Atlanta’s Spivey Hall, Seattle’s Meany Hall, the Harriman-Jewell Series in Kansas City, San Francisco Performances, the Piano Forte Series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Aspen Music Festival. He has played at venues such as the Musikhalle in Hamburg, Tonhalle in Zurich, Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Schauspielhaus in Berlin, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Salle Gaveau in Paris, Sala Verdi in Milan, as well as London’s South Bank Centre and Wigmore Hall, where he performs annually. Sudbin has performed at music festivals throughout the world, and is a frequent participant at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland. His love of chamber music has led him to collaborate with many other musicians including Alexander Chaushian, Ilya Gringolts, Hilary Hahn, and Julia Fischer.

Born in St Petersburg in 1980, Yevgeny Sudbin displayed exceptional musical talent from an early age and in 1987 entered the Specialist Music School of the St. Petersburg Conservatory. In 1990 he continued his studies in Berlin and then moved to London where he has lived since 1997, and where he studied with Christopher Elton at the Royal Academy of Music. Additionally, he attended the International Piano Foundation at Lake Como, Italy. He has taken lessons with Murray Perahia, Claude Frank, Leon Fleisher, Stephen Hough, Alexander Satz, and others. The Pulvermacher Foundation, Alexis Gregory Foundation, and Wall Trust have also played important roles in Yevgeny’s career.

In Cooperation with Grant Rogers Musical Artists’ Management UK
05/2012

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