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He gave three more recitals back in Europe before embarking on this year’s festival season, whose highlights will include two performances at Salzburg: a solo recital (5 August 2022) and a duo recital with Sir András Schiff (9 August).
Evgeny Kissin’s achievements have been recognised with many prestigious awards and prizes.
He appears in recital in Spain, France, Germany, Austria, Britain, Norway, Holland, Luxembourg, Poland, Serbia, Japan and Southeast Asia.
Evgeny Kissin's recordings have also received numerous awards and accolades, including the Edison Klassiek in The Netherlands and the Diapason d’Or and the Grande Prix of La Nouvelle Academie du Disque in France, as well as awards from music magazines throughout the world.
At the age of ten, he made his concerto debut playing Mozart’s Piano Concerto K. 466 and gave his first solo recital in Moscow one year later. His discography also includes a Grammy Award-winning album of solo works by Scriabin, Medtner and Stravinsky; Beethoven’s complete piano concertos with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Colin Davis; a Grammy Award-winning recording of Prokofiev’s Piano Concertos Nos.
2 & 3 with the Philharmonia and Vladimir Ashkenazy; and discs devoted to solo works by Brahms, Chopin and Schumann. He received the International Prize of the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in 1991 and became Musical America’s youngest Instrumentalist of the Year in 1995. He was special guest at the 1992 Grammy Awards Ceremony, broadcast live to an audience estimated at over one billion, and became Musical America's youngest Instrumentalist of the Year in 1995.
In December 2003 in Moscow, he received the Shostakovich Award, one of Russia ’s highest musical honors. The following week he opened Carnegie Hall’s Centennial season with a spectacular debut recital, which was recorded live by BMG Classics.
Musical awards and tributes from around the world have been showered upon Evgeny Kissin. In 1997 he received the prestigious Triumph Award for his outstanding contribution to Russia’s culture, one of the highest cultural honors to be awarded in the Russian Republic, and again, the youngest-ever awardee.
In December of the same year he performed with Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic in a New Year’s concert which was broadcast internationally, with the performance repeated the following year at the Salzburg Easter Festival. In a special tribute written to accompany a recital given at the Klavier-Festival Ruhr in June 2021 at which the pianist was awarded with the 2020 Festival Prize, German critic Wolfram Goertz praised the “spectacular seriousness” of Kissin’s approach, and noted that, the enormous care with which he prepares works for performance notwithstanding, “what is so compelling about his artistry is that it retains its immediacy”.
Christopher Nupen’s documentary film, Evgeny Kissin: The Gift of Music, was released in 2000 on video and DVD by RCA Red Seal.
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"ALL THE HALL MARKS OF HIS GENIUS - AND ONE DOES NOT USE THE WORD LIGHTLY - WERE ON DISPLAY: THE RICH, SONOROUS TONE, THE DAZZLING FINGERWORK AND, ABOVE ALL, THE INSPIRED FANTASY.
He received it in the category of the Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestra) for his recording of piano works by Scriabin, Medtner and Igor Stravinsky. He was the first pianist to be invited to give a recital at the BBC Proms (1997), and, in the 2000 season, was the first concerto soloist ever to be invited to play in the Proms opening concert.
In 2002 and 2006 Kissin was named Echo Klassik Soloist of the Year. Made at Carnegie Hall, the recording captures the last of the eight concerts Kissin gave with the Emerson String Quartet in the early months of 2018, and features music by Mozart, Fauré and Dvořák.
The pianist’s latest album is The Salzburg Recital, a strikingly original programme of works by Berg, Chopin, Gershwin and Khrennikov, as well as encores by Chopin, Debussy, Mendelssohn and Kissin himself.
In 1991 he received the Musician of the Year Prize from the Chigiana Academy of Music in Siena, Italy. In June 2005, he was awarded an Honorary Membership of the Royal Academy of Music in London. He makes regular recital tours of Europe, America and Asia to sold-out houses. In May 2001 Kissin was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music by the Manhattan School of Music.
Audio and video recordings of the New Year’s concert were made by Deutsche Grammophon.
In 1990 Kissin made his first appearance at the BBC Promenade Concerts in London and that same year made his North American debut, performing both Chopin piano concertos with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Zubin Mehta.
In 1988 he toured Europe with the Moscow Virtuosi and Vladimir Spivakov and also made his London debut with the London Symphony Orchestra under Valery Gergiev.