Samson Tsoy performing at Fidelio Cafe with the Fidelio Cafe with Pavel Kolesnikov
Samson released his debut solo album on Linn Records in 2024. Described as a “probing meditation on creativity” by the Guardian, and a “glorious compilation” by BBC Music Magazine.
Recent highlights for Samson Tsoy have included a debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3), solo recitals at Wigmore Hall and Guggenheim Bilbao, concerts with the Philharmonia Orchestra with Gergely Madaras (Scriabin’s Prometheus) and Maxim Emelyanychev (both Brahms Piano Concertos in one evening), and a concert with Münchener Kammerorchester and Enrico Onofri. He also collaborated with acclaimed American artist Richard Serra at the Gagosian Gallery, where he performed Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps.
Samson frequently collaborates with pianist Pavel Kolesnikov, and this season the duo make their debuts at Bozar in Brussels, Saffron Hall, Festival Bach de Montreal, and returns to the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam and Wigmore Hall. These dates follow appearances last season at Carnegie Hall, Berlin's Konzerthaus, Rotterdam's De Doelen, and the Muziekcentrum de Bijloke in Ghent. In April 2025 the duo gave 2 concerts in tribute to artist David Hockney, at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris.
Lauded for his originality and “inexhaustible imagination”, Samson has performed in venues and festivals around the world including the Barbican, Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall, Aldeburgh festival, Théâtre de la Ville and Salle Gaveau in Paris, Berlin’s Konzerthaus, and Verbier Festival. In 2023, he was the first-ever classical musician to perform for the opening of the Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz (Munich Security Conference) in front of the world’s most important political leaders.
He was born in Kazakhstan and is based in London.
