Yevgeny Sudbin
Piano
"A pianist of uncommon sensitivity and refinement who has total confidence in his imaginative concept of each piece." (The Independent): Yevgeny Sudbin is one of the most admired pianists of our time. As a BIS Records exclusive artist, all of Yevgeny Sudbin’s recordings have met with extraordinary critical acclaim and are regularly featured as CD of the Month by BBC Music Magazine or “Editor’s Choice” by Gramophone. His Scriabin recording was awarded CD of the Year by the Daily Telegraph and received the MIDEM Classical Award for Best Solo Instrument Recording at Cannes. It was described by Gramophone as “a disc in a million.”
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In 2022 Mr. Sudbin released his solo album “Romeo & Juliet: Tchaikovsky on the Piano” and Scriabin's Prometheus, which Fanfare magazine declared “just a touch sexy … this is an outstanding release in every way." The International Record Review stated that Yevgeny Sudbin’s Rachmaninoff recording “confirms him as one of the most important pianistic talents of our time”. His 10th anniversary disc of Scarlatti Sonatas was received with equal rapture and not only hit No. 1 in the Classical Music Charts but was also nominated for the Gramophone Classical Music Award. Yevgeny was also nominated as Gramophone Artist of the Year in 2016.
Highly praised as a concert soloist — with the Daily Telegraph describing his performance of Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 1 at the BBC Proms as ‘sublime’ — Yevgeny has worked in recent seasons with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, as well as Minnesota Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Czech Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra and many others. He also performs regularly in many of the world's finest venues and concert series including the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Tonhalle Zurich, Royal Festival Hall, Concertgebouw, Avery Fisher Hall in New York and Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco.
Yevgeny Sudbin has collaborated with some of the world’s most influential conductors, such as Neeme Järvi, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Osmo Vänskä, Hannu Lintu, Tugan Sokhiev, Mark Wigglesworth, Andrew Litton, Dmitri Slobodeniouk and Vassily Sinaisky. In addition, his love of chamber music has led him to collaborate with many musicians including Hilary Hahn, Julia Fischer, Alexander Chaushian, Ilya Gringolts, the Chilingirian Quartet, Johannes Moser, Vadim Gluzman and many others. Appearances at festivals in the past have included Aspen, Mostly Mozart, Tivoli, Nohant, La Roque d'Anthéron, Menton and Verbier.
Recent season highlights included recitals at Birmingham Town Hall, Kolarac Hall (Belgrade), Chopin Society (London), Vancouver Recital Society and Serate Musicali (Milan), debuts with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, NCPA Beijing, Japan Philharmonic and the Orchestra of the Music Makers Singapore, plus a return visit with the London Chamber Orchestra. A solo recital tour in Germany brought him to Hirschfeld, Weißenburg, Lünen, Fürstenfeldbruck, Blaibach and Offenburg.
Yevgeny Sudbin was born in St Petersburg in 1980 and began his musical studies at the Specialist Music School of the St Petersburg Conservatory with Lyubov Pevsner at the age of 5. He emigrated with his family to Germany in 1990 where he continued his studies at Hochshule für Musik Hanns Eisler with Galina Ivanzova. In 1997 Yevgeny moved to London to study at the Purcell School and subsequently the Royal Academy of Music where he completed his Bachelor and Masters degrees under Christopher Elton. He was supported by the Hattori and Pulvermacher Foundations as well as The Wall Trust, of which he is now Vice President. In 2010, he was awarded a Fellowship by the Royal Academy of Music and is now a Visiting Professor. Yevgeny lives in London with his wife and three young children and, in his spare time, he is an avid photographer.
