Yevgeny Sudbin is already hailed as potentially one of the greatest pianists of the 21st century - The Daily Telegraph
In the midst of 7-year and 14-album collaboration with BIS Records, all his recordings to date have met with unprecedented critical acclaim. His release of works by Scriabin was chosen CD of the Year by The 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 Sudbin's recent recitals include appearances at Tonhalle (Zurich), Wigmore Hall Master Series (London), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), San Francisco Performances, the Gilmore International Piano Festival, and ProArte Musical (Montreal and Puerto Rico). Orchestral engagements last season included performances of Scriabin's Piano Concerto 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, and his debut at the Mostly Mozart Festival under Osmo Vänskä at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, New York. Earlier this season he performed in the Southbank International Piano Series in London and in the Master Pianist Series at the main Concertgebouw Hall, Amsterdam.
Other recent engagements with orchestra include performances with the Minnesota Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, the Tonhalle Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Sudbin's performance of Rachmaninov's Concerto No. 1 with the BBC Philharmonic under Tortelier at the 2008 BBC Proms was described by The Daily Telegraph as "sublime."
Sudbin has performed at music festivals throughout the world including the Aspen Festival, La Roque d'Antheron, and he is a frequent participant at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland. In 2008-09, Sudbin embarked on recording the complete cycle of Beethoven concertos for BIS. This is a multi-year undertaking in collaboration with the Minnesota Orchestra under Osmo Vänskä, and the first of these recordings has just been released to overwhelming critical acclaim. Concert plans for the immediate future include début appearances with New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, and recordings with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and Bergen Philharmonic as well as performances in Australia and New Zealand.
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His Concertgebouw début: Sudbin's Rachmaninoff reminded one of the aristocratic playing of the composer himself. In his own arrangement of one of Rachmaninoff's songs, Spring Waters, he demonstrated to be a match for this grandmaster. - Christo Lelie, Trouw
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 Beethoven Concertos 4&5: Time and again I come away from a Yevgeny Sudbin recital thinking the same thing, that this brilliant young pianist exhibits an infectious hunger for his repertoire. He seems to consume it, occasionally be consumed by it, and his exploration of these concertos seems exactly that, an entirely immersary experience. Thrilling." - James Invern, Gramophone
His Chopin recording: This glorious disc confirms Yevgeny Sudbin as one of the most searching and inspired of today's pianists. Each recording that he produces in his continuing series for BIS seems to reveal a new facet of his thought processes and his interpretative intelligence...This is a disc not to be missed. It is a triumph. - Geoffrey Norris, The 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
His Scriabin recording: No pianist of any generation has, in my experience, captured Scriabin's volatility so vividly as Sudbin. This, put suitably euphorically, is a disc in a million. - Bryce Morrison, Gramophone