Recital with Yevgeny Sudbin & Alexander Chaushian

14th international Pharos Chamber Music Festival

Yevgeny Sudbin / piano
Yevgeny Sudbin has been hailed by The Telegraph as “potentially one of the greatest pianists of the 21st century”. In the midst of a 7-year and 14-album collaboration with BIS Records, all of Yevgeny’s recordings have met with critical acclaim and are regularly featured as CD of the Month by BBC Music Magazine or Editor’s Choice by Gramophone. His Scriabin recording was awarded CD of the Year by The Telegraph and received the MIDEM Classical Award for Best Solo Instrument Recording at Cannes. It was described by Gramophone as “a disc in a million” while the International Record Review stated that Yevgeny’s Rachmaninov recording “confirms him as one of the most important pianistic talents of our time”.

Yevgeny performs regularly in many of the world's finest venues and concert series, both in recital and with orchestra, including Tonhalle Zurich, Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Wigmore Hall in London; Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Avery Fisher Hall in New York and Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco. Recent engagements and tours have included orchestras such as New Zealand Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Leipzig Orchestra, Lucerne Symphony, Warsaw and Bergen Philharmonic orchestras, London Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic. His performance of Rachmaninov's Concerto No.1 at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall was described by The Telegraph as “sublime.”

Yevgeny has collaborated with some of the world’s most influential conductors, such as Neeme Järvi, Charles Dutoit, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Osmo Vänskä, Hannu Lintu, Vassily Sinaisky, Philippe Herreweghe, Tugan Sokhiev, Mark Wigglesworth, Andrew Litton, Dmitri Slobodeniouk. His love of chamber music has led him to collaborate with many other musicians including Alexander Chaushian, Ilya Gringolts, Hilary Hahn, Julia Fischer, the Chilingirian Quartet and many others. Appearances at festivals include Aspen, La Roque d'Antheron, Mostly Mozart and Verbier. In 2009, Yevgeny embarked on recording the complete cycle of Beethoven concertos with the Minnesota Orchestra, and the first two of these recordings have consistently received rave reviews. The last instalment featuring the 1st and 2nd concertos will be recorded with the Tapiola Sinfonietta (under Osmo Vänskä) later in 2014.

Future engagements include extensive USA tours, national Australian tours with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Asia with Singapore Symphony Orchestra, concerts and recordings with the BBC Symphony under Sakari Oramo, as well as recitals throughout the world including a return to the International Piano Series at London's Southbank Centre.

In its centenary year in 2013, the Critics' Circle announced its third annual Critics' Circle Music Award, and Yevgeny was named the recipient of the Exceptional Young Talent award in the Instrumentalist category. In 2010, Yevgeny was given a prestigious Fellowship by the Royal Academy of Music in London where he is now a Visiting Professor.

Yevgeny was born in St Petersburg in 1980 and began his musical studies at the Specialist Music School of the St Petersburg Conservatory with Lyubov Pevsner at the age of 5. He immigrated with his family to Germany in 1990 where he continued his studies at Hanns Eisler Musikhochschule (Galina Ivanzova). In 1997, Yevgeny moved to London to study at the Purcell School and subsequently the Royal Academy of Music where he completed his Bachelor and Masters degrees under Christopher Elton. He was supported by The Wall Trust as well as the Hattori and Pulvermacher Foundations.

Alexander Chaushian / cello
First Prize winner of the Premio Mozart Competition in Verona, Italy in 1990 and the International Music Competition in Holland in 1992, Alexander Chaushian also received the Guilhermina Suggia Gift in London - a grant awarded to outstanding string players - on three occasions. In 1997, he was awarded the Orchestra of New England Soloist Prize, as well as the First Summis Auspiciis Prize of Young Concert Artists in New York. In 1999, he was the recipient of the Anna Instone Memorial Award sponsored by Capital Radio. In 2001, he was the joint recipient of the Pierre Fournier Award, while in 2002, he won the Third Prize in the 12th International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Chaushian was also awarded the Third Prize and the Special Prize given by the Munich Chamber Orchestra at the Internationaler Musikwettbewerb der ARD in Germany in September 2005.

Alexander Chaushian has appeared in prestigious venues throughout the world, and as a soloist, he has played with a number of renowned orchestras, including the Vienna Chamber Orchestra at Vienna’s Konzerthaus and at the Bruchnerhaus in Linz, the London Mozart Players and the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Royal National Orchestra of Belgium, Les Solistes Européens de Luxembourg in a gala concert conducted by Yehudi Menuhin, the Boston Pops Orchestra at Boston Symphony Hall, and the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.

Chaushian has given recitals at the Harrogate Festival in England, the Kuhmo International Festival in Finland, La Jolla Festival in the USA, the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, and in Montpellier as recipient of the Beracasa Foundation Prize of the Radio-France and in Montpellier Festival. Since 2002, he has been acting as the artistic director of the Orpheus & Bacchus Festival in Bordeaux in France and the International Pharos Chamber Music Festival in Cyprus.

In 2006, Alexander Chaushian recorded Dmitry Shostakovich’s Cello Sonata for Performance Channel Television, as well as Wim Zwaag’s Cello Concerto with the Núrnberger Symphoniker. His solo debut recording for the BIS label of Weinberg’s Sonatas, in which he is partnered with Yevgeny Sudbin, was released to much acclaim. It was recently followed by another highly acclaimed CD for BIS, which includes cello sonatas by Rachmaninov, Borodin and Shostakovich.

PROGRAMME:

J.S. Bach: Suite for solo cello No.1 in G major, BWV 1007
Frédéric Chopin: Ballade for piano No.3 in A-flat major, Op.47
Alexander Scriabin: Piano Sonata No.5 in F-sharp major, Op.53
Cesar Franck: Sonata for cello and piano in A major
Sergei Rachmaninov: Vocalise for cello and piano, Op.34/14

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