Undogmatic, tolerant, sometimes downright inconspicuous and extremely reserved, Evgeni Koroliov appears to leave no doubt about his artistic intention: the search for musical truthfulness. For a better society. Perhaps for paradise. "It comes from pure instinct," he says. "Out of disgust for all things that are only externally conceived. It originates in my little brain, which says: everything that is external can also be an illusion. Spontaneously and instinctively, I have always avoided everything that has to do with that."
Koroliov is a consummate musician and captivates his listeners with an enormous intellectual understanding of the works, putting the full range of his artistic and interpretative skills at the service of the audience.
It is the constant alternation between tension and relaxation, variation in dynamics and tempo, and the breathtaking intensity of his interpretation that enables the listener to truly understand Bach. Evgeni Koroliov was still very young when he discovered Bach - he heard Glenn Gould in Moscow in 1957 and was influenced by the legendary Russian pianists Maria Judina and Svjatoslav Richter.
In the 1960s and 70s, he won important piano competitions, from the Leipzig Bach Competition to the Van Cliburn Competition and the Grand Prix Clara Haskil.
