Audio and video recordings of the New Year's concert were made by Deutsche Grammophon. In December of the same year he performed with Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic in a New Year's concert which was broadcast internationally, with the performance repeated the following year at the Salzburg Easter Festival. In 1988 he toured Europe with the Moscow Virtuosi and Vladimir Spivakov and also made his London debut with the London Symphony Orchestra under Valery Gergiev. In 1987 he made his West European debut at the Berlin Festival. Kissin's first appearances outside Russia were in 1985 in Eastern Europe, followed a year later by his first tour of Japan. During the next two years, several Kissin performances in Moscow were recorded live and five more LPs were released by Melodia. This concert was recorded live by Melodia, and a two-LP album was released the following year. He came to international attention in March 1984 when, at the age of twelve, he performed Chopin's Piano Concertos 1 and 2 in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory with the Moscow State Philharmonic under Dmitri Kitaenko. 466 and gave his first solo recital in Moscow one year later.

At the age of ten, he made his concerto debut playing Mozart's Piano Concert K. At six years old, he entered a special school for gifted children, the Moscow Gnessin School of Music, where he was a student of Anna Pavlovna Kantor, who has remained his only teacher. Evgeny Kissin was born in Moscow in October 1971 and began to play by ear and improvise on the piano at the age of two.

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