Denis Matsuev

Denis Matsuev is one of those electrifying pianists often associated with finger-busting repertory, but his keyboard persona is rather perfectly balanced: its thunder and hair-raising brilliance coexist nicely with delicacy and nuance to yield an interpretive depth of a rare kind. In short, he is an artist who can bowl his audiences over with pyrotechnics one moment, and mesmerize them with poetic rapture the next. His repertory is rich in both solo and chamber music, covering the Romantic to contemporary eras. Matsuev was born in Irkutsk, Russia, on June 11, 1975. His father...