Piano

  • Saleem Abboud Ashkar

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    Saleem Abboud Ashkar

    "A formidable musician...who has a mixture of warmth and clarity, intensity and freshness that simply grabs you: Pure Beethoven-joy"Die Welt

  • Thomas Adès

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    Thomas Adès

    "Mr. Adès's playing brought out the music's path-breaking elements, an approach that continued throughout the entire cycle. The point was not to contort the songs..."Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times

  • Dmitri Alexeev

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    Dmitri Alexeev

    "This great poet of the piano warmed his brilliantly articulated playing with a ripe, ringing core to each note."Hilary Finch, The Times

  • Leif Ove Andsnes

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    Leif Ove Andsnes

    "A pianist of magisterial elegance, power and insight."New York Times

  • Elisso Bolkvadze

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    Elisso Bolkvadze

    "Formidable Talent"The New York Times

  • Simone Dinnerstein

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    Simone Dinnerstein

    ""arresting freshness and subtlety""TIME

  • Barry Douglas

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    Barry Douglas

    "Douglas superbly draws out the contrasts within each piece, bringing out their individual character... his tone is a deep velvet cushion, the legatos full of affection..."BBC Music Magazine by Jessica Duchen

  • Julius Drake

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    Julius Drake

    "Drake made the piano part sound positively incandescent. For my money, this inspired accompanist is now the best in the business."Diary of One Who Vanished, Lincoln Centre. New York Magazine.

  • Frank Dupree

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  • Kirill Gerstein

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    Kirill Gerstein

    "Kirill Gerstein delivered the daunting piano part with silky grace"Michael Church, The Independent

  • David Greilsammer

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    David Greilsammer

    Musical Director, Geneva Chamber Orchestra

    "... one of the most audacious and visionary artists of his generation."Lionel Esparza, France Musique

  • Hélène Grimaud

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    Hélène Grimaud

    "The evening’s diverse repertoire highlighted Grimaud’s masterful sense of timing and drama, resulting in many breathtaking moments"The SunBreak, Dana Wen

  • Ran Jia

    Ran Jia

  • Jeffrey Kahane

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    Jeffrey Kahane

    "Kahane invested this epic work with deep musical understanding and a razor-sharp sense of drama, bringing incisive definition to its constant shifts in sound and mood,..."Denver Post

  • Freddy Kempf

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    Freddy Kempf

    "The sound that Kempf produced on the grand piano carried every sparkling moment with clear and solid tone. His interpretation of the music captured the pride..."Helsingin Sanomat

  • Vadym Kholodenko

    Vadym Kholodenko

  • Evgeny Kissin

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    Evgeny Kissin

    "Without question he is a phenomenal pianist, a deeply intuitive and sensitive musician"The New York Times

  • Elisabeth Leonskaja

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    Elisabeth Leonskaja

    "The popularity of mercurial Elisabeth Leonskaja amongst audiences has never been higher, perhaps because she is one of “the last of the great Russian school""Sean Rafferty , Bach Track

  • Jan Lisiecki

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    Jan Lisiecki

    "...perhaps the most 'complete' pianist of his age..."BBC Music Magazine

  • Valentina Lisitsa

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    Valentina Lisitsa

    "Lisitsa is a serious artist… Her essential attribute is a fevered urgency, an almost desperate desire to suck the expressive marrow from a piece"The Daily Telegraph

  • Gabriela Montero

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    Gabriela Montero

    "Montero's playing had everything: crackling rhythmic brio, subtle shadings, steely power in climactic moments, soulful lyricism in the ruminative passages and, best of all, unsentimental expressivity"Anthony Tommasini, New York Times

  • Murray Perahia

    Murray Perahia

  • Navah Perlman

    Navah Perlman

  • Andrei Pisarev

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  • Ivo Pogorelich

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    Ivo Pogorelich

    "The Chopin (...) was pure poetry, unsentimental and glorious. Moments of tragic weight in the outer movements were balanced by a sinister, mercurial scherzo and a rapt..."Tim Ashley, The Guardian

  • Alfredo Rodríguez

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    Alfredo Rodríguez

    "Rodríguez proved himself one of the most original keyboard talents to come out of Cuba since Chucho Valdes and Gonzalo Rubalcaba. So striking was the..."Boston Herald

  • Alexander Romanovsky

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    Alexander Romanovsky

    "Alexander Romanovsky is special, not just an extraordinary technician with a flair for color and fantasy, but also a sensitive musician and lucid interpreter"The New York Times

  • Martin Stadtfeld

    Martin Stadtfeld

  • Conrad Tao

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    Conrad Tao

    "Tao is a composer-pianist, blessed with prodigal performing skill and compositional imagination."The Independent by Andy Gill

  • The 5 Browns

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  • Jean-Yves Thibaudet

    Jean-Yves Thibaudet

  • Simon Trpčeski

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    Simon Trpčeski

    "Macedonian pianist Simon Trpceski, in a welcome return to the BSO, tackled the work with tireless bravura and keen musicality."Tim Smith, The Baltimore Sun

  • Nobuyuki Tsujii

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    Nobuyuki Tsujii

    Joint Gold Medalist of the Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition

    "There are moments when this young man could easily take his place alongside legendary Lisztians...such is the nobility and breadth of his conception. I always..."MusicWeb International

  • Christian Zacharias

    Christian Zacharias