Yevgeny Sudbin

Yevgeny Sudbin (Russian: Евгений Судьбин, born 1980, Saint Petersburg, Russia) is a Russian concert pianist. He studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. After his family emigrated to Berlin when he was age 10, he won several German piano competitions, and studied at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. He was a pupil of Christopher Elton at the Purcell School and the Royal Academy of Music, for nine years. His education has also included lessons with Murray Perahia, Claude Frank, Leon Fleisher, Stephen Kovacevich, Dmitri Bashkirov, Fou Ts'ong, Stephen Hough, Alexander Satz, and Maria Curcio.

Sudbin has recorded music of Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Medtner, Scarlatti, and Scriabin for the BIS label.

Sudbin has lived in the UK since 1997. He made his debut at The Proms in July 2008. That same month, Sudbin and his fiancée Sally Wei married in Italy.

In September 2010 he was appointed visiting professor of piano at the Royal Academy of Music in London. - Wikipedia