Mykola Suk

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"An astonishing blend of muscular power, poetry and utter control he will prove to be one of the more formidable talents to have appeared in this country in years."

(American Record Guide)

Mykola Suk's "powerful and pearl-like playing" (Wiener Zeitung), his "immense talent of tone coloring" (Le Soleil, Quebec), his "enormous digital control" (Toronto Star) and his ability to "transform virtuosity into poetry of the mind" (Keskisumalainen, Finland) have earned him comparisons with some of the great pianists of all time. "One soon understood why he has been compared to Richter it appeared as if, with his playing, Mykola Suk would set the instrument on fire," said the Trossinger Zeitung, and "surely the most towering and volcanic talent to have come out of Russia since Anton Rubenstein," said the European Piano Teacher's Journal.

Mykola Suk is a Ukrainian pianist who has concertized in solo recitals, as a soloist with major orchestras under leading conductors (most recently with the Russian National Symphony under Mikhail Pletnev), and at chamber music festivals throughout the former USSR, North America, Europe, the Middle East, Australia and Asia. Mr. Suk has recorded for the Melodya, Russian Disc, Hungaraton, Melda and Troppe Note/Cambria labels

First Prize and Gold Medal, International Liszt-Bartok Competition, Budapest, 1971

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