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 ...

As Evgeny Kissin gets older his style of playing may change and his repertory may expand beyond the Romantic works he now chooses to play. But, as his recital Saturday night at the Kennedy Center made ...

Evgeny Kissin’s more or less annual recital appearances are invariably among the most highly anticipated events of Chicago’s classical music season, and the audience turnout for the Russian piano ...

When recordings by a 12-year-old pianist named Evgeny Kissin first filtered out of Moscow about 11 years ago, a chorus of piano aficionados pronounced him the kind of talent who emerges once in a ...

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 ...