Pianist

TURNING POINT

Afew years ago, the Telegraph’s music critic termed Yevgeny Sudbin ‘potentially one of the greatest pianists of the 21st century’. Sudbin, 42, who left Russia to study at the Purcell School in his teens and has lived here ever since, is blessed with dizzying virtuosity and a feel for lyricism, colour and atmosphere second to none. He is also an expert at making sparkling piano transcriptions of orchestral favourites.

Sudbin, however, has recently been through the type of personal horror that many musicians – indeed, people from all walks of life – sometimes hesitate to

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