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Ivar Ilya

Professor of the Estonian State Conservatory, famous pianist, jury member of international competitions, participant of numerous international music festivals, Ivari Ilya, of course, enters the history of musical culture of the XNUMXth century as a unique accompanist.

Born in Tallinn. He was educated first at the Tallinn State Conservatory, and then in Moscow, at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory. P.I. Tchaikovsky.

He became a laureate of several national and international competitions, including the Piano Competition. F. Chopin in Warsaw and the Vianna da Motta competition in Lisbon.

Ilya performs both in solo concerts and with such ensembles as the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra. His repertoire includes works by Chopin, Brahms, Schumann, Mozart, Prokofiev, Britten and many others.

The musician has devoted more than 20 years to teaching, among his graduates are laureates and diploma winners of international competitions, famous young Estonian pianists Sten Lassmann, Mihkel Pol.

Ivari Ilya is well known as a chamber music performer.

Accompanying opera stars of the first magnitude – Irina Arkhipova, Maria Guleghina, Elena Zaremba, Dmitry Hvorostovsky, the pianist performed on the stage of La Scala, the Bolshoi Theater and the Grand Hall of the Conservatory in Moscow, the Grand Hall of the Philharmonic and the House of Music in St. Petersburg, the Berlin and Hamburg Opera, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln and Kennedy Center, Mozarteum in Salzburg.

Concertmaster Ivari Ilya brilliantly corresponds to the phenomenal talent of the vocalists with whom he performs – this is how the world press evaluates the professional skills and talent of a unique musician. The applause that the enthusiastic audience generously bestows on famous singers rightfully belongs to the pianist. Everyone who writes about the musician notes his natural elegance, the rarest culture and refined taste, as well as his fantastic flair, efficiency, ability to subordinate his exquisite pianism to the vocal data and singing nature of the performer.