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and tours have included orchestras such as New
Zealand Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Leip-
zig Orchestra, Lucerne Symphony, Warsaw and
Bergen Philharmonic orchestras, London Philhar-
monic, BBC Philharmonic. His performance of
Rachmaninov’s Concerto No.1 at the BBC Proms
in the RoyalAlbert Hall was described by The Tel-
egraph as “sublime.”
Yevgeny has collaboratedwith some of theworld’s
most influential conductors, such as Neeme Järvi,
Charles Dutoit, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Osmo Vän-
skä, Hannu Lintu, Vassily Sinaisky, Philippe Her-
reweghe, Tugan Sokhiev, Mark Wigglesworth,
Andrew Litton, Dmitri Slobodeniouk. His love
of chamber music has led him to collaborate
with many other musicians including Alexander
Chaushian, Ilya Gringolts, Hilary Hahn, Julia Fis-
cher, the Chilingirian Quartet and many others.
Appearances at festivals includeAspen, La Roque
d’Antheron, Mostly Mozart and Verbier. In 2009,
Yevgeny embarked on recording the complete
cycle of Beethoven concertos with the Minnesota
Orchestra, and the first two of these recordings
have consistently received rave reviews. The last
instalment featuring the 1
st
and 2
nd
concertos will
be recorded with the Tapiola Sinfonietta (under
Osmo Vänskä) later in 2014.
Future engagements include extensive USA tours,
national Australian tours with the Australian
Chamber Orchestra and Asia with the Singapore
Symphony Orchestra, concerts and recordings
with the BBC Symphony under Sakari Oramo,
as well as recitals throughout the world including
a return to the International Piano Series at Lon-
don’s Southbank Centre.
In its centenary year in 2013, the Critics’ Circle
announced its third annual Critics’ Circle Music
Award, and Yevgeny was named the recipient of
the Exceptional Young Talent award in the Instru-
mentalist category. In 2010, Yevgeny was given a
prestigious Fellowship by the Royal Academy of
Music in London where he is now a Visiting Pro-
fessor.
Yevgeny was born in St Petersburg in 1980 and
began his musical studies at the Specialist Music
School of the St Petersburg Conservatory with Ly-
ubov Pevsner at the age of 5. He immigrated with
his family to Germany in 1990 where he contin-
ued his studies at Hanns Eisler Musikhochschule
(Galina Ivanzova). In 1997, Yevgeny moved to
London to study at the Purcell School and subse-
quently the Royal Academy of Music where he
completed his Bachelor and Masters degrees un-
der Christopher Elton. He was supported by The
Wall Trust as well as the Hattori and Pulvermacher
Foundations.
AshleyWass / piano
“A thoroughbred who possesses the enviable gift
to turn almost anything he plays into pure gold”
Gramophone Magazine
Described as an “endlessly fascinating artist”,
Ashley Wass is firmly established as one of the
leading performers of his generation. He is the
only British winner of the London International
Piano Competition, prize-winner at the Leeds Pi-
ano Competition, and a former BBC Radio 3 New
GenerationArtist.
Increasingly in demand on the international stage,
Ashley has performed at many of the world’s fin-
est concert halls including Wigmore Hall, Car-
negie Hall and the Vienna Konzerthaus. He has
performed as soloist with numerous leading en-
sembles, including all of the BBC orchestras, the
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