Piano Recital by Evgeny Kissin【Programme Cancelled】
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Piano Recital by Evgeny Kissin【Programme Cancellation and Ticket Refund Arrangement】
Since the performer is unable to perform in Hong Kong as planned, “Piano Recital by Evgeny Kissin” scheduled for 16 November 2024 (Saturday) at the Concert Hall of Hong Kong Cultural Centre has been cancelled. The arrangement of ticket refund for the performance is as follows:
For payment made by Visa, Mastercard, American Express, UnionPay, Alipay, WeChat Pay or mobile payment through electronic wallet where applicable: Refund shall automatically be handled by Maoyan through the same method previously used to purchase the ticket according to the latest record of URBTIX in around 60-80 days.
For payment made by Cash (HK currency only), Octopus or FPS: Please apply your refund with original ticket intact(s) (with stub) at the URBTIX Maoyan Customer Service Centre during office hours from 28 October 2024 (Monday) to 27 January 2025 (Monday). Upon the receipt of returned tickets, refund will be deposited to the designated bank account provided by the ticket holders via FPS or bank transfer.
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Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor, Op. 90
Chopin
Nocturne in F-sharp minor, Op. 48, No. 2
Fantaisie in F minor, Op. 49
Brahms
Four Ballades, Op. 10
Prokofiev
Piano Sonata No. 2 in D minor, Op. 14
The performance will run for about 1 hour 30 minutes including a 20-minute intermission.
Members of the audience are strongly advised to arrive punctually. Latecomers and those who leave their seats during the performance will only be admitted and allowed to return to their seats respectively during the intermission or at a suitable break. The presenter reserves the right to refuse admission of latecomers, or determine the time and manner of admission of latecomers.
The programme does not represent the views of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department.
The presenter reserves the right to change the programme.
Evgeny Kissin’s musicality, the depth and poetic quality of his interpretations, and his extraordinary virtuosity have earned him the veneration and admiration deserved only by one of the most gifted classical pianists of his generation and, arguably, generations past. He is in demand all over the world and has appeared with many of the world’s great conductors, including Claudio Abbado, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Daniel Barenboim, Ernő Dohnányi, Carlo Maria Giulini, Herbert von Karajan, James Levine, Lorin Maazel, Riccardo Muti, and Seiji Ozawa, as well as all the great orchestras of the world.
Kissin was born in Moscow in October 1971 and began to play by ear and improvise on the piano at the age of two. At six years old, he entered a special school for gifted children, the Moscow Gnessin School of Music, where he was a student of Anna Pavlovna Kantor, his only teacher. At the age of ten, he made his concerto debut playing Mozart’s Piano Concerto K. 466 and gave his first solo recital in Moscow one year later. He came to international attention in March 1984 when, at the age of twelve, he performed Chopin’s Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory with the Moscow State Philharmonic under Dmitri Kitayenko. This concert was recorded live by Melodia, and a two-LP album was released the following year. Given this recording’s astounding success, Melodia released five more LPs of live performances in Moscow over the next two years.
Kissin’s first appearances outside Russia were in 1985 in Eastern Europe; his first tour of Japan in 1986; and in December 1988 he performed with Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic in a New Year’s concert broadcast internationally. In 1990 Kissin made his first appearance at the BBC Promenade Concerts in London and, in the same year, made his North American debut, performing both Chopin’s piano concertos with the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Zubin Mehta. The following week he opened the Carnegie Hall’s Centennial season with a spectacular debut recital, recorded live by BMG Classics.
This season, Kissin returns to tour North America, Europe and Asia in a recital program featuring works by Bach, Chopin, and Shostakovich. In the fall, he visits Taipei, Hong Kong, Seoul and major cities across Japan. His spring tour of North America takes him to Vancouver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Washington D.C., Cleveland, Chicago, and New York. The tour will culminate with three performances at Carnegie Hall commemorating the 50th anniversary of Shostakovich’s death. Besides a solo recital, he will perform the violin, viola and cello sonatas with Gidon Kremer, Maxim Rysanov and Gautier Capuçon respectively. The third program will present a selection of Shostakovich’s chamber works, featuring the Four Verses of Captain Lebyadkin, and From Jewish Folk Poetry song cycles, along with the Piano Quintet, and Piano Trio No. 2.
Musical awards and tributes from around the world have been showered upon Kissin. He received the Crystal Prize of the Osaka Symphony Hall for the Best Performance of the Year in 1986 (his first performance in Japan). In 1991 he received the Musician of the Year Prize from the Chigiana Academy of Music in Siena, Italy. He was special guest at the 1992 Grammy Awards Ceremony, broadcast live to an audience estimated at over one billion, and three years later became Musical America’s youngest Instrumentalist of the Year. In 1997 he received the prestigious Triumph Award for his outstanding contribution to Russia’s culture, one of the highest cultural honours to be awarded in the Russian Republic, the youngest ever awardee. Kissin has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music by the Manhattan School of Music; the Shostakovich Award, one of Russia’s highest musical honours; an Honorary Membership of the Royal Academy of Music in London; and an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from The University of Hong Kong.
Kissin’s newest release is an album featuring Beethoven’s Sonatas on the Deutsche Grammophon. His previous recordings have received numerous awards and accolades, having contributed significantly to the library of masterpieces recorded by the world’s greatest performers. Past awards have included the Edison Klassiek in The Netherlands, and the Diapason d’Or and the Grand Prix of La Nouvelle Academie du Disque in France. His recording of works by Scriabin, Medtner and Stravinsky (RCA Red Seal) won him a Grammy in 2006 for Best Instrumental Soloist. In 2002, Kissin was named Echo Klassik Soloist of the Year. His most recent Grammy for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (with orchestra) was awarded in 2010 for his recording of Prokofiev’s Piano Concertos Nos. 2and 3 with the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy (EMI Classics).
Kissin’s extraordinary talent inspired Christopher Nupen’s documentary film, Evgeny Kissin: The Gift of Music, which was released in 2000 on video and DVD by RCA Red Seal.
Kissin appears by arrangement with IMG Artists New York
Kissin records for Deutsche Grammophon
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Piano Recital by Evgeny Kissin【Programme Cancelled】
Tickets available from 21 Augustat all URBTIX outlets, self-service ticketing kiosks, on internet, by mobile app and telephone.
Maximum 4 tickets per purchase per person on the first day of ticket sale.
Half-price tickets available for senior citizens aged 60 or above, people with disabilities and the minder, full-time students and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) recipients (limited tickets for full-time students and CSSA recipients available on a first come, first served basis).
"Great Music" Package Discount
For each purchase of standard tickets for ‘Piano Recital by Evgeny Kissin’, ‘Duo Recital by Gautier Capuçon (Cello) and Jean-Yves Thibaudet (Piano)’, ‘Elīna Garanča Gala Concert’ and ‘Piano Recital by Krystian Zimerman’, the following concession applies:
10% off for any 2 programmes, 15% off for any 3 programmes, 20% off for 4 programmes.
"Great Music" Group Booking Discount
For each purchase of standard tickets for ‘Piano Recital by Evgeny Kissin’, ‘Duo Recital by Gautier Capuçon (Cello) and Jean-Yves Thibaudet (Piano)’, ‘Elīna Garanča Gala Concert’ and ‘Piano Recital by Krystian Zimerman’, the following concession applies:
10% off for 4-9 tickets, 15% off for 10-19 tickets, 20% off for 20 or more tickets.
Patrons can enjoy only one of the above discount offers.
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