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  • 04 October 2023

    Pianists Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy sign to Askonas Holt for solo and duo representation

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  • Scriabin Prometheus Poem of Fire

    Philharmonia Orchestra at Bold Tendencies
    Jun 2022

    • ***** If you want cosmic, it was cosmic. Samson Tsoy triumphed as the intrepid piano soloist.

    • **** 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.

  • Brahms Piano Concerto Nos 1 & 2

    Philharmonia Orchestra at Bold Tendencies
    Aug 2021

    • ***** As in the Brahms Second Concerto, Tsoy’s very rare ability to bounce between light, deft humour and colossal Russian-school pianism paid off: there won’t be a better or classier Pictures live for a long time to come.

  • Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time

    Ragged School Museum
    Oct 2020

    • **** Tsoy sculpted the cosmic plainchant that is the second movement’s backdrop with warmth and care...

  • Beethoven Moonlight Sonata

    Bold Tendencies
    Aug 2020

    • ***** If Bartók in one way trumped the holy Frenchman’s metaphysical ambition, departing too soon, Tsoy...made us feel that Beethoven was moving in that direction, from the steady hypnosis of the “Moonlight” Sonata’s first movement, bold magic even under strip lighting and the red lights of endless construction projects in the distance, via a very human transitional movement to more massive resonance at the climactic end of the finale, a true clincher.

  • Chamber Music with Alina Ibragimova

    Fidelio Cafe, London
    Jul 2020

    • ***** Their performance of Janacek’s Violin Sonata comes bursting with bucolic vigour, Arvo Pärt’s Spiegel im Spiegel has immaculate poise, and Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata – preceded by a reading from the Heiligenstadt Testament – alternates between delicately inflected grace and hurtling force.

  • Brahms, Beethoven & Ravel

    Wigmore Hall
    Jun 2020

    • ***** Then, with Tsoy back at the upper end of the keyboard, there was the F minor Fantasie, its long, obsessive episodes masterfully paced so that it tightened and unwound like a spring.