In the midst of a 7-year and
14-album collaboration with BIS Records, his recordings
have met with overwhelming critical acclaim. The International
Record Review stated that Sudbin's Rachmaninov 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 2009-10, Sudbin's many recitals
include appearances at Tonhalle (Zurich), Wigmore
Hall Master Series (London), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam),
San Francisco Performances, the Gilmore International
Piano Festival, and ProArte Musical (San Juan, Puerto
Rico). Orchestral 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 also performs Beethoven's Concerto No.
5 with Minnesota Orchestra (which will also be recorded
for BIS).
Summer 2009 highlights included
a recital at the Singapore International Piano Festival,
and a performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No.12,
K. 414 with Indianapolis Symphony at Conner Prairie.
He also performs 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.
Sudbin has appeared with many
of the world's most distinguished orchestras. 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 and
the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Sudbin's performance
of Rachmaninov'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, 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, the
Gewandhaus in Leipzig, the Schauspielhaus in Berlin,
the Salle Gaveau in Paris, the 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.
Recitals in 2010 will include the International Paino
Series at London’s Southbank, and Amsterdam’s
Concertgebouw. His love of chamber music has led
him to collaborate with many other musicians including
Alexander Chaushian, Ilya Gringolts, Hilary Hahn,
and Julia Fischer.
In 2008-09, Sudbin embarked on
recording the complete cycle of Beethoven concertos
for BIS, a multi-year undertaking in collaboration
with the Minnesota Orchestra under Osmo Vänskä.
During 2007-08, Sudbin recorded Rachmaninov'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, and the disc was released
in 2009 to great acclaim.
Born in St Petersburg in 1980,
Yevgeny Sudbin displayed exceptional musical talents
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.
His Wigmore Hall début recital: A great recital. He is a pianist
of uncommon sensitivity and refinement and has total confidence in his
imaginative concept of each piece. - Adrian Jack The Independent
His 2006 Verbier Festival recital:
Sudbin's great quality was his acute sense of characterization,
conveying not just the letter of the music through
his consummate technique, but also its spirit through
his intuition and inspiration. Any chance to hear
him should be snapped up. - Geoffrey Norris The Daily
Telegraph
His Scarlatti recording: Once
in a blue moon a record appears by a hitherto unknown
artist who seems destined to take his place among
the elect. Both musically and technically, this debut
is on a par with those two greatest of Scarlatti
pianists, Horowitz and Pletnev. As eloquent in the
most poignant sonatas as he is brilliant in the showstoppers,
Sudbin is already a master. - Daniel Steans Piano
Magazine
His Rachmaninov recording: This
confirms him as one of the most important pianistic
talents of our time - Harriet Smith International
Record Review
His Tchaikovsky / Medtner recording:
Few seem as fresh and necessary as this release from
this wonder pianist - Geoff Brown The Times.
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