April 03, 1998 • Page Image 90
…V This is no ordinary P i anist! E vgeny Kissin began life as a true little Mozart. At 14 months he could hum on pitch, at 2 he played the piano by ear, and at 6 he stunned his teacher at Moscow's Gnessin Music School for Gifted Children by performing his own transcription of Tc ha ikovsky's Nutcracker. At 19, his sold-out Carnegie Hall debut was heralded as an historic event and elicited comparisons with the venerable Horowitz and Rubinste...…

















































