Ilya Itin

Ilya Itin, 2010

Ilya Itin (born April 3, 1967 in Sverdlovsk ) is a Russian pianist and music teacher .

Career

Itin began studying piano at the Sverdlovsk School for the Gifted with Natalia Litvinova and graduated in 1990 with the highest honors from Lev Naumov at the Moscow Conservatory . In the same year he received second prize at the Rachmaninov Competition in Moscow, soon afterwards the highest honors at the William Kapell International Piano Competition , first prize and the special prize at the Casadesus Competition and prizes at the Gina Bachauer Competition.

His international career began after winning the gold medal, the BBC Audience Award and the Contemporary Music Award at the 1996 Leeds International Piano Competition. He has performed as a soloist with orchestras such as the Cleveland Orchestra , the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic , the Tokyo Prefecture Symphony Orchestra , the National Symphony Orchestra , the London Philharmonic Orchestra , the Chinese National Symphony , the Symphony Orchestra of India , the Orquesta Filarmónica de la Ciudad de México and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and under conductors such as Simon Rattle , Neeme Järvi , Christoph von Dohnanyi , Yakov Kreizberg , Vassily Sinaisky , Valery Polyansky and Michail Pletnjow and gave concerts in Europe, Asia, the USA and South America.

As a chamber musician, Itin worked with the Jupiter Chamber Players , with Fuminori Maro Shinozaki , Igor and Vesna Gruppmann , Mark Kosower , Adam Neiman and Ida Haendel . He lives in New York and Tokyo, teaches at the Musashino Academy in Tokyo, the Academy of the Miami International Piano Festival and the Golandsky Institute , previously also at the Juilliard School , the Peabody Conservatory and the Graduate Program of the City University of New York , and gives master classes worldwide.

personal data
SURNAME	Itin, Ilya
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian pianist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	April 3, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ekaterinburg

Ilya Itin

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