Highly acclaimed Russian Concert Pianist, and a Prize Winner of many International Piano Competitions such as Leeds, Bremen, Prague Spring, Vianna Da Motta in Macao, Alexis Weissenberg International Piano Master in Switzerland, J.Vitols (Latvia) Ciurlionis (Lithuania) and the. “The Independent” rated his previous concert at the Wigmore Hall with 5 stars and praised his playing as: ”Magical… as though Samoyloff was possessed by Beethoven…employs a brilliant technique to pursue keyboard poetry…”
” The other generous praise from International press includes:
“Samoyloff successfully marries crisp articulation, structure and flights of fancy”
(International Record Review Magazine),
“technically most assured” (Classical Source).
“…a gifted poet possessing wonderful inspiration and experience of the soul “
(Literature and Art Magazine), “
…an independent and profoundly individual way of thinking , …extraordinarily capacious imagination... emotionally rich and unique individuality” (Voice of Riga)
He was acclaimed in the Latvian press in Riga as “a Lion of the keyboard”.
Evgeny has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras such as the London Philharmonic, English National Opera, Czech Radio Symphony, Shanghai Symphony, Lithuanian National Symphony. Latvian National Symphony, Conductors with whom he has worked include Charles Hazelwood, Alexander Polyanichko, Leo Swarovsky, Juozas Domarkas Leagh O'Hara, Peter Stark, Imant Resnis and Leon Gee.
Regular appearances in the International Music Festivals such as the City of London, Prague Spring, Virtuoses Da Musica (Brazil), de l'Académie Internationale & Festival d'Eté de Musique in Geneva, Ramsey, West Norfolk (UK) and the Easter Piano (France) and others.
Evgeny has made numerous recordings for radio and television in UK (for the BBC Radio 3) Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic. His live performance of Prokofiev's 3rd Piano Concerto with the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra won the Best Recording of the Year Award in the Nordic-Baltic Joint Concert Season and has been broadcasted in all the Baltic and Scandinavian countries.
He was featured as a guest in the BBC Radio 3 live programme “In Tune” in 2014 where he performed works by Tchaikovsky.
Evgeny’s new CD of Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Scriabin will be released later this year on “Quarts” label.
