Yevgeny Sudbin is a British pianist, born in Leningrad, then part of the Soviet Union. He began studying music with his mother and at the school attached to the Leningrad Conservatory, where he studied with Lyubov Pevzner. His parents had met while studying at the conservatory.
At age ten, Sudbin moved with his parents and sister Anna to Berlin on a tourist visa. He continued studying with Pevzner and attended the Hanns Eisler School of Music, winning several German music competitions. In 1997, he went to Britain to continue his studies at the Royal Academy of Music with Christopher Elton. He also studied with Maria Curcio, Stephen Hough, and Murray Perahia.
Sudbin made his Wigmore Hall debut in 2003 and performed at the BBC Proms for the first time in 2008. From September 2010, he has been a visiting professor of piano at the Royal Academy of Music. He has named Domenico Scarlatti, Alexander Scriabin, and Sergei Rachmaninoff as central to his repertoire.
His recordings are released by the Swedish label BIS Records. They include concertos by Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Tchaikovsky, Nikolai Medtner, and Beethoven, as well as sonatas by Scarlatti and Haydn. His awards include first prizes at the International Piano Competition in Ústí nad Labem and Prague's Concertino, an award at the Dublin International Piano Competition, the 2000 London Vendome Prize, and a 2008 Cannes Classical Award.