Piano Recital with
Yevgeny Sudbin Sunday 24 January 2010 / 8.30pm
The Shoe Factory, 304 Ermou Street, Nicosia
(Limited Seating / Pre-booking essential)
The Pharos Arts Foundation opens the 2010 Concert and Recital Series with a
recital by the phenomenal young pianist, Yevgeny Sudbin, hailed 'as
potentially one of the greatest pianists of the 21st century' (The Daily
Telegraph). The recital will take place on Sunday 24 January 2010, at the
Shoe Factory (304 Ermou Street, Nicosia), 8.30pm, and the programme will
comprise works by Haydn, Chopin, Liszt and Ravel.
Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)
He is a pianist of uncommon sensitivity and refinement and has total
confidence in his imaginative concept of each piece. Adrian Jack for The
Independent (review of Sudbin's Wigmore Hall début recital)
This [Sudbin's Rachmaninov recording] confirms him as one of the most
important pianistic talents of our time
Harriet Smith for Piano Magazine (International Record Review)
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 for Gramophone
Born in St Petersburg in 1980, Yevgeny Sudbin displayed exceptional musical
talents from an early age. In 1987, he entered the Specialist Music School
of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, and in 1990, he continued his studies in
Berlin. He has been living in London since 1997 where he studied with
Christopher Elton at the Royal Academy of Music. In addition, he attended
the International Piano Foundation at Lake Como in Italy. Sudbin's teachers
included such legendary musicians as Murray Perahia, Claude Frank and Leon
Fleisher. The Pulvermacher Foundation, Alexis Gregory Foundation, and Wall
Trust have also played important roles in Yevgeny's career.
In the midst of a 7-year and 14-album collaboration with BIS Records,
Yevgeny Sudbin's recordings have met with overwhelming critical acclaim. In
2008-09, Sudbin embarked on recording the complete cycle of Beethoven
concertos. This is a multi-year undertaking in collaboration with the
Minnesota Orchestra under Osmo Vänskä. During 2007-08, he recorded
Rachmaninov's Concerto No. 4, in its original 1926 version, with the North
Carolina Symphony under Grant Llewellyn. That work was paired with Medtner's
Concerto No. 2, which was recorded with the same orchestra for release in
summer 2009. 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, and has appeared
with many of the world's most distinguished orchestras. Recent 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. His
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 appeared in 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.
His schedule for 2009-2010 includes 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, Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto with
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, and Beethoven's Concerto No. 5 with Minnesota
Orchestra.
Programme:
Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809)
Sonata No. 30 in B minor, Hob.16/32 (1776)
Sonata No. 53 in E minor, Hob.XVI:34 (1781)
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52 (1842-43)
Interval
Nikolai Medtner (1880-1951)
Fairy Tales:
Allegretto frescamente Op. 26 No. 1 in E-flat major (1912)
Allegro con espressione Op. 20 No. 1 in B-flat minor (1909)
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Gaspard de la Nuit (1908)
Ticket Prices:
Adults:EUR20
Friends and Supporters of the Pharos Arts Foundation &
Concessions: EUR15
Tickets can be purchased from: The Pharos Arts Foundation (22 663 871)
Moufflon Bookshop (22 665155)
http://www.cyprus-tickets.com (70009303)
