Samson Tsoy
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About Samson
The 2024/25 season sees Samson perform in Bozar in Brussels, Saffron Hall, Festival Bach de Montreal, and at the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam.
Recent highlights have included a debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3), asolo recital at Wigmore Hall, concerts with the Philharmonia Orchestra with Gergely Madaras (Scriabin’s Prometheus) and Maxim Emelyanychev (both Brahms Piano Concertos in one evening), and a concert with Münchener Kammerorchester and Enrico Onofri. He also collaborated with acclaimed American artist Richard Serra at the Gagosian Gallery, where he performed Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps.
Samson frequently collaborates with pianist Pavel Kolesnikov, and this season the duo make their recital debuts at Carnegie Hall, Berlin Konzerthaus, and Rotterdam’s De Doelen, alongside a return to Wigmore Hall. They will take part in a digital installation at Antwerp’s MoMu combining choreography by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Schubert’s Fantasie. Recent highlights for the duo include performances at Amsterdam’s Muziekgebouw and London’s Southbank and Barbican centres. In 2019, the duo co-founded the Ragged Music Festival where they perform alongside Alina Ibragimova, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Lawrence Power and Elena Stikhina.
Lauded for his originality and "inexhaustible imagination’" Samson has performed in venues and festivals around the world including the Barbican, Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall, Aldeburgh festival, Théâtre de la Ville and Salle Gaveau in Paris, Berlin’s Konzerthaus, and Verbier Festival. In 2023, he was the first-ever classical musician to perform for the opening of the Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz (Munich Security Conference) in front of the world’s most important political leaders.
Samson’s debut album featuring solo works by Brahms will be released by Linn records in early 2025. He was born in Kazakhstan and is based in London.
Representation
Season Highlights
Video
Samson Tsoy performs Bach’s Partita No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 826. Sinfonia | Yamaha Music
Credit: Yamaha Music Europe
PlayingSamson Tsoy performs Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major, S. 124
Credit: Samson Tsoy
PlayingSamson Tsoy performs an excerpt from Schumann’s Kreisleriana, Op. 16
Credit: City Music Foundation
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Sample Programmes
Sample Programme 1: Bach
Bach Bach: Partitas Nos. 1-6
Sample Programme 2: “Playing is just playing”
Complete Partitas by Bach & selection from Játékok by Kurtág in two evenings Kurtág: Játékok Bach: Partita No.2 Kurtág: Játékok Bach: Partita No.3 interval Kurtág: Játékok Bach: Partita No. 4 /// Kurtág: Játékok Bach: Partita No.1 Kurtág: Játékok Bach: Partita No.5 interval Kurtág: Játékok Bach: Partita No. 6 Kurtág’s musical language, his idea of playfulness and freedom within precision and intensity of meaning resonates beautifully with Bach’s limitless inventiveness within strict polyphonic principles. “Pleasure in playing, joy of movement” – these words of the author himself revealing the essence of Játékok apply miraculously to astonishing six keyboard Partitas that contain arguably Bach’s most daring takes on the traditional dance forms. It is the ultimate mastery and discipline of two great composers that, as if by some trick, draw a breathtaking range of emotions and colours from simple ideas. “Playing is just playing”, says Kurtag, and maybe this is where the true magic and purity comes from.
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Press
Scriabin Prometheus Poem of Fire
Philharmonia Orchestra at Bold TendenciesJun 2022***** If you want cosmic, it was cosmic. Samson Tsoy triumphed as the intrepid piano soloist.
- Fiona Maddocks, The Guardian
- 11 June 2022
**** Prometheus is in similar language, but more feral and dangerous, and it requires a piano soloist: the magnificent Samson Tsoy navigated its fiery challenges with great flair.
- Jessica Duchen, iNews
- 17 June 2022