Evgeny Igorevich Kissin (, Evge'nij I'gorevi? Ki'sin) (born October 10, 1971) is a Russian Virtuoso classical pianist. Kissin was born in Moscow to a Jewish family. At age 11 months, he reportedly was able to hum along to a Bach tune his sister Alla was playing on the piano. At age 6 he commenced his own piano studies at the esteemed Gnessin School of Music for Gifted Children where he became a student of Anna Pavlovna Kantor. At the age of 10, Kissin made his debut with the Ulyanovsk Symphony Orchestra and the year after that he gave his first recital in Moscow. Kissin's extraordinary talents were made manifest on the international scene in 1984, when he played and recorded Chopin's two piano concertos with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1988, he played Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 with Herbert von Karajan at the Berlin Philharmonic's New Year's Concert. In September, 1990, Kissin made his North Americ