CLEVELAND, Ohio — Few pianists today elicit the kind of eager expectation, borne of star-power and reputation, that Evgeny Kissin does the moment he takes the stage. There is a quality to his presence ...

Pianist Evgeny Kissin stunned the music world in 1984, when he played both Chopin piano concertos in a single concert with the Moscow Philharmonic. From the recording of that star-making performance, ...

It took pianist Evgeny Kissin much of the first half of his recital to fully hit his stride. But when he did, with a dynamic, expansive performance of Frédéric Chopin’s Scherzo No. 4, the packed ...

When little Evgeny Kissin was just 12 years old, he made a smashing debut at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. From that event, Chopin's Mazurka No. 49 in F minor and the Waltz No. 14 in E ...

Evgeny Kissin plays the piano like someone who is more at home in the world of notes than the world of feelings. It is as if he has had to learn to move past mere fluency to something deeper. He doesn ...

But you certainly could argue that Kissin has been the world’s most enigmatic great pianist since the death of Sviatoslav Richter in 1997 — though, unlike the promiscuously gay Richter, his ...