Ievgueni Kissine

Ievgueni Igorevitch Kissine (in) is a Pianiste Russian born with Moscow the October 10th 1971.

Biography

Born within an Jewish family, wire of a father engineer and a mother piano teacher, Ievgueni Kissine starts to play of the piano as of the two years age, and enters at six years the very prestigious Gnessin School off Music for Gifted Children of Moscow where he studies with Anna Pavlovna Kantor.

At the 10 years age, Kissine begins in the orchestral music by interpreting Concerto Kv. 466 of Mozart, and the following year, gives its first recital to Moscow. The talents of Kissine are noticed on the international scene in 1984, where he plays two Concerto S for Piano of Chopin in the Large Hall of the Conservatoire of Moscow with the Philharmonic orchestra of Moscow under the rod of Dmitri Kitaïenko.

Kissine starts to be pointed out in Europe in 1987 with the Festival of Berlin and he plays in 1988 and 1989 pennies the direction of Herbert von Karajan the Concerto for piano n° 1 of Tchaïkovski. He makes his beginnings in the United States in 1990. He takes part in 1992 in the Grammy Awards and gives the first recital of piano in the history of the London Proms in 1997.

Repertory

At the time of its concerts, Ievgueni Kissine generally interpreted works of the large traditional and romantic type-setters such Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt or Brahms. He acknowledges nevertheless that its favorite type-setter remains Johann Sebastian Bach of which he says that he is “alpha and the Omega” and that he only approached very little in concert to date. He prefers the recitals with the symphonic concerts and the Chamber music. He often plays the music of the 20th century but has few affinities with the contemporary type-setters.

External bond

Evgeny Kissin (Sony BMG)

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