Pianist Evgeny Kisin Biography

The biography was born on October 10, at the age of 6, he entered the Gnesins music school. The first and only teacher is Anna Pavlovna Kantor. Initially, like a child prodigy, he acted under the name Zhenya Kisin. At 10, he first performed with the orchestra, performing Mozart's concert. A year later, he gave his first solo concert. In the year, at the age of 12 he performed 1 and 2 concerts of Chopin for piano with an orchestra in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.

In the year he went abroad with concerts, debuted in Western Europe at the Berlin festival. In the year, he performs with Herbert von Karayan at the New Year's concert of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, performing the 1st concert of Tchaikovsky. A week later, the musician performs with a solo concert at Carnegie Hall. In February, he takes part in the Grammy ceremony in New York, which was broadcast on television to an audience, consisting, according to estimates, of a billion six hundred million spectators.

In August, he gave a solo concert at the Proms festival in London Albert Holla - the first piano evening for more than the summer history of the festival. He performs with poetic evenings in Yiddish and in Russian. Honorary titles Honorary Doctor of Music of the Manhattan School of Music about Armenia "Nietzsche said:" When there are not enough words, the music begins.

" My music is an expression of love for Armenia. I drive around the world, but the warmth with which I am accepted here is unprecedented. Moreover, this applies to both the public itself and to high-ranking persons: President Serzh Sargsyan handed me the Order of Honor, the first lady of Armenia made a wonderful reception at the house-museum of Sergei Parajanov.

" He first visited Armenia in the year, and in him organized many charitable concerts, transferring money to the victims during the Spitat earthquake. Since then, they have given a lot of charitable concerts, the revenue from which they are sent to the “Children of Armenia” and orphans of Spitak to the Foundation. Part of the funds proceeds from concerts was provided by the National Seismical Protection Service and was spent on the construction of the gymnasium in Gyumri, as well as the acquisition of computers.

With Armenian music, he is connected by his own story. In December, while still studying in a ten -year -old, the pianist played Elegy Babajanyan at the BIS in the support of the Armenians who suffered during earthquakes in Spitaka. As the musician himself says: "I played Babajanyan as a sign of" Tsavt Tan, the Armenian people. " The outstanding Russian pianist Yevgeny Kisin, who was in Armenia as part of the Yerevan Prospects festival, told reporters that he rejects invitations to participate in music festivals in Turkey due to the refusal of this country to recognize the genocide of Armenians.

At the same time, he replied that he had been invited to Turkey more than once. Awards of the RAD Order of the Honor, for strengthening and developing Armenian-Russian cultural ties and for a significant contribution to the provision of humanitarian assistance to the victims of the destructive earthquake of the year in Armenia, Honorary Citizen of the city of Spitak Valery Bryusov for a great contribution to the development of Russian-Armenian cultural and humanitarian ties Honorary Professor of the Yerevan State Conservative Silver medal named after Beethoven.