29 March 2009 (Sun) 8pm
Concert Hall, Hong Kong Cultural Centre
$620, 500, 350, 200
'Kissin's technique…is as awesome as ever.' – The Times
Evgeny Kissin was born in Moscow in October 1971 and began to play by ear and improvise on the piano at the age of two. At six years old, he entered a special school for gifted children, the Moscow Gnessin School of Music, where he was a student of Anna Pavlovna Kantor, who has remained his only teacher. 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. He came to international attention in March 1984 when, at the age of twelve, he performed Chopin’s Piano Concertos 1 and 2 in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory with the Moscow State Philharmonic under Dmitri Kitaenko. This concert was recorded live by Melodia, and a two-LP album was released the following year. During the next two years, several Kissin performances in Moscow were recorded live and five more LPs were released by Melodia.
Programme
Prokofiev
Three Pieces from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 75
- The Young Juliet
- Mercutio
- Montagues and Capulets
Piano Sonata No. 8, Op. 84
Chopin
Polonaise-Fantaisie, Op. 61
Three Mazurkas
- Mazurkas in C-sharp Minor, Op. 30, No. 4
- Mazurkas in A-flat, Op. 41, No. 4
- Mazurkas in A Minor, Op. 59, No. 1
Eight Etudes
- Etude in C Op. 10, No. 1
- Etude in A Minor, Op. 10, No. 2
- Etude in E, Op. 10, No.3
- Etude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 10, No. 4
- Etude in C Minor, Op. 10, No. 12
- Etude in E Minor Op. 25, No. 5
- Etude in G-sharp Minor Op. 25, No. 6
- Etude in A Minor Op. 25, No. 11
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