Ilya Scheps

Ilja Scheps (* 1956 ) is a Russian pianist living in Germany and a professor at the University of Music and Dance Cologne , Aachen department .

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Scheps studied piano at the Moscow Conservatory , where he was later taken on as a teacher. Between 1982 and 1992 he mainly appeared as a soloist with the Moscow Philharmonic . Invitations to guest appearances have taken him to the USA, Australia, China, Israel, Italy, Malta, New Zealand, Spain, Hungary and Turkey, among others.

With the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the establishment of the Russian Federation in 1992, Scheps moved to Germany, where he taught as a private lecturer at the Rostock University of Music and Theater , at the Dortmund Department of the Detmold University of Music and at the Academy of Music in Darmstadt . In 2003 he became professor for piano and chamber music at the University of Music and Dance Cologne, Aachen department, where he was promoted to a member of the Aachen department alongside Hans-Werner Huppertz and Claudia Kunz-Eisenlohr .

In addition, he took on the direction of international master classes for pianists, including at the State Music Academy of North Rhine-Westphalia , and is also a jury member at internationally renowned competitions. Since 2006, Scheps and his Aachen university colleague Andreas Frölich have headed the international jury of the Prix ​​amadéo de piano , from 2015 the MozARTe International Piano Competition , as well as the organizers' association MozARTE eV based in Aachen. He was also a member of the jury at the international Chopin Competition in Darmstadt in 2009 and was nominated as a jury member for the "2nd China Shenzhen International Piano Concerto Competition" held in October 2011 by the Goethe-Institut China in Shenzhen . In addition, Ilja Scheps has been appointed visiting professor at several universities in China.

Ilja Scheps and his wife Tamara Scheps - also a pianist and piano teacher - are the parents of the pianists Olga Scheps and Anna Scheps . Ilya Scheps and his two daughters have performed together several times.

Discography (selection)

• Ilja Scheps (piano) and Sergej B. Jakovenko (baritone): Modest Mussorgski -Songs , Arkiv-Music, 1991
• Ilja Scheps (piano) and Sergej B. Jakovenko (baritone): Walentyn Sylwestrow : Stille Lieder, song cycle for voice and piano , 2 CDs, Graefelfing: ECM Records Verlag, Berlin, Universal-Music, 2004
• Ilja Scheps et al .: Nikolai Andrejewitsch Rimski-Korsakow : Complete Songs , Classical Music, 2009

Web links

• Biography of Ilya Scheps