Gold Medal Winner, International Prokofiev Competition, Russia
Robert Thies

The only American pianist in four decades to win a Russian piano competition since Van Cliburn's famed triumph in Moscow in 1958.

"A pianist of unerring warm-toned refinement, revealing judicious glimmers of power"
- Los Angeles Times

"At times haunting, morose and foreboding, at others gentle and passionate, the music had a strong advocate in Thies."
- New Zealand Herald

"The young musician seemed never at a loss for ideas, instilling every phrase with nuance, direction, and vitality..."
- Los Angeles Times

"A gifted and insightful interpreter in friendly communion with the music. The results are consistently lively, pointed, and propulsively directed... Note his name."  - LA Weekly