Piano

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

"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

"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

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

Elisso Bolkvadze

"Formidable Talent"The New York Times

Simone Dinnerstein

""arresting freshness and subtlety""TIME

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

"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

Kirill Gerstein

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

David Greilsammer

Musical Director, Geneva Chamber Orchestra

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

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

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

"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

Evgeny Kissin

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

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

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

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

"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

Navah Perlman

Andrei Pisarev

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

"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

"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

Conrad Tao

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

The 5 Browns

Jean-Yves Thibaudet

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

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