Nominated as a 2022 Rising Star Artist by Classic FM, Iyad Sughayer was a prize-winner at the YCAT International Auditions in 2021. His second recording for BIS with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Andrew Litton was released to critical acclaim in autumn 2022.
However, Iyad needs little introduction to audiences at Leicester Museum, after our first encounter during Covid and two memorable visits subsequently. Leicester Concert-goer wrote:
‘This artist’s sound has a huge compass. One moment he is capable of the most delicate of touches, swiftly to be contrasted with the most thunderous and dramatic of sounds in the bass which sometimes came near to obliterating for a moment or two everything else. In other words, he is a true virtuoso but rarely, unlike some from that stable, did the music seem to suffer from the desire to impress.’
