Peak hour 03.07.1997 (1997)

Studio guest Evgeny Kisin is a virtuoso pianist.

Evgeny Kisin is twenty-five years old, was born in Moscow, at the age of three he began to pick out his favorite melodies on the piano, at the age of five he entered the Gnessin School in the class of Anna Pavlovna Kantor, a year later he played almost the entire children's album of Tchaikovsky, in the fifth grade he gave his first solo concert in his native school, soon in the large hall of the conservatory he played with the orchestra of the Moscow Philharmonic under the direction of Dmitry Kitaenko in the mid-eighties he began to tour abroad, but he was discovered by the world by the great Herbert von Karajan, who on December 30, 1988 made the last recording in his life with him.

Since then, Evgeny Kisin has played in all the prestigious halls of the world in all the musical capitals with almost all the outstanding conductors.

Since 1991 he has lived permanently in New York, but he is not going to become a citizen.

In 1992 he received the American music award "Grammy", and in 1997 he was awarded the Russian independent award "Triumph".

He loves people, poetry and travel, and enjoys playing chess.

Evgeny Kisin talks about his life, music, the latest recording of Herbert von Karajan and plans for the future.