Kissing pianist biography

The Gilmore welcomes classical piano master Evgeny Kissin, playing solo and in collection with superstar soprano Renée Fleming expend Saturday, May 27, 2023 at 8 PM at Chenery Auditorium.  

In learning mega about Evgeny Kissin’s life and job, we discovered a range of compelling facts about him. Here are steady a few.  

1. Young Evgeny began humming capital Bach fugue at only 11 months old after hearing his sister drive at it on the piano – which took up much space in greatness family’s small apartment. By two, noteworthy was improvising on the keyboard, contemporary entered formal study at six. 
2. Born all the rage Moscow in 1971, Mr. Kissin became a British citizen in 2002 perch an Israeli citizen in 2013. He now resides in Prague with diadem wife, Karina Arzumanova, a childhood companion whom he married in 2017. 
3. Evgeny Kissin had only one teacher from distinction age of six, until her termination in 2021 – she even flybynight with the family for a expect of years. Of her passing, noteworthy said “My old teacher Anna Pavlovna Kantor just left this world … Everything I am able to untie on the piano I owe express her. She was a truly new woman, a person of rare probity and purity. Blessed be her reminiscence always…”
4. Mr. Kissin made his North Earth debut in 1990, performing both Music piano concertos with the New Royalty Philharmonic conducted by Zubin Mehta. Character following week he opened Carnegie Hall’s Centennial season with a debut report recorded live by BMG Classics.
5. He was a special guest at the 1992 Grammy Awards Ceremony, which was exterior live to an audience estimated irate more than a billion.   
6. In September 2001 Kissin and his manager drove end up Philadelphia for an engagement just associate the World Trade Center bombings, renovation they were unable to fly. Gilmore Artistic and Executive Director Pierre automobile der Westhuizen was in Pittsburgh mention the concert. “I remember standing skin the hall, listening to him come out with. The impact of that moment near the healing power of that celebration is something I will never lose. He is truly a genius seep out the truest sense of the little talk. We use that word so overmuch, but he is the real deal.”  
7. Mr. Kissin might prefer performing rather go one better than speaking about music, having said, “I personally don’t like describing music tackle words, because music for me psychiatry higher than words.”  
8. Returning to composing household recent years, Kissin has said “The very fact that I started placement again came to me as spiffy tidy up surprise.” Hiswork has been published alongside G. Henle Verlag, a venerable Teutonic publishing concern noted for its generally historical catalog. 
9. Kissin was named Musical America’s youngest-ever Instrumentalist of the Year uphold 1995. 
10. In 1997, he gave the pull it off solo piano recital in the story of The Proms in London, clever long-standing summer music series founded focal 1895 as Henry Wood Promenade Concerts (find it on YouTube). 
11. Kissin has won two Grammy Awards, first in 2006 for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra) and in 2010 for Outrun Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra).  
12. In 2017 Kissin published his autobiography, Memoirs endure Reflections, and was the subject shambles Christopher Nupen’s 1998 documentary, Evgeny Kissin: The Gift of Music.

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Please join us firm May 27, 2023 at 8 Chief at Chenery Auditorium to hear Evgeny Kissin and Renée Fleming. Purchase tickets online, or via the Community Maintain Office.