Evgeny Kissin is a Russian concert pianist and composer. He has a wide repertoire and is especially known for his interpretations of the works of the Romantic era, particularly those of Franz Schubert, Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Ludwig van Beethoven.
He is commonly viewed as a great successor of the Russian piano school because of the depth, lyricism and poetic quality of his interpretations