Yevgeny Sudbin makes his BBC Proms debut in July of 2008, performing Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 1. In 2008-09, he returns in recital to the Aspen Music Festival, performs Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 with the Waterbury Symphony and Rachmaninov's Variations on a Theme of Paganini with Seattle Symphony. United States appearances in 2007-08 included performances of Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto with the Minnesota Orchestra under Osmo Vanska, to be recorded at a later date for BIS; Rachmaninov's Variations on a Theme of Paganini with the Fort Worth Symphony; and Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 4, in its original 1926 version, with the North Carolina Symphony under Grant Llewellyn, also being recorded. He gave recitals in Seattle's Meany Hall, on Ravinia Festival's "Rising Star" series, at the Irving S. Gilmore Foundation in Kalamazoo, and on the Piano Forte Series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Mr. Sudbin has performed extensively throughout the world, including Asia and South America. He has appeared with several of the world's most distinguished orchestras, and performed at 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. He has performed at music festivals throughout the world, and is a frequent participant at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland. His love of chamber music has led him to collaborate with many other musicians including the Chilingirian Quartet, Ilya Gringolts, Hilary Hahn, Julia Fischer and Sharon Bezaly.

Born in St Petersburg in 1980, Yevgeny Sudbin displayed exceptional musical talents from an early age and in 1987 entered the specialist music school of the St. Petersburg Conservatory. In 1990 he continued his studies in Berlin and then moved to London where he has lived since 1997, and where he studied with Christopher Elton at the Royal Academy of Music. Additionally, he attended the International Piano Foundation at Lake Como, Italy. He has taken lessons with Murray Perahia, Claude Frank, Leon Fleisher, Stephen Hough, Alexander Satz, among others. The Pulvermacher Foundation and the Wall Trust have also played an important role in Yevgeny's career.

*In Cooperation with Grant Rogers Musical Artists' Management UK

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