Iyad Sughayer

International concert pianist

Award winning concert pianist

“He captures the music’s essence with such a close sense of recreative identity that it feels on occasion as though he could be composing it as he goes along. An outstanding debut” ★★★★★

– Julian Haylock | BBC Music Magazine

‘exhilarating and delivered with perfect clarity ... It’s a release that leaves one eager to hear Sughayer in other repertory while eloquently arguing that Khachaturian’s piano music deserves re-evaluation as something more than teaching pieces.’

– Patrick Rucker | Gramophone

''...Sughayer makes effortless work of all the numbers.”

★★★★★ David Nice BBC Music Magazine 

‘…this Jordanian-Palestinian player shines'

– Michael Church | International Piano Magazine, February 2020 Critic’s choice

‘…his wonderfully confident pianism unfolds with a sense of ease.’

– Alexander Thompson | Piano Journal

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. 

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Award winning concert pianist

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Watch Iyad perform

Khachaturian: Poem – Live at the Wigmore Hall London

Mozart: Piano Sonata in G K.283 – Live at the Wigmore Hall London

Sibelius: Piano Pieces op.24 – Live at the Wigmore Hall London

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