Ilya Itin
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| Occupation | Classical pianist |
| Awards |
Leeds International Piano Competition 1996 Gold medal Contemporary Music Award BBC Audience Award Casadesus Competition 1991 First Prize Special Chopin Prize Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition 1991 Third Prize Best Performance of a Work of Mozart Best Prokofiev Performance William Kapell Competition 1990 Top Honors |
| Website | http://www.ilyaitin.com |
Ilya Itin (born April 3, 1967, Yekaterinburg) is a Russian concert pianist of international acclaim currently residing in New York City.
Ilya Itin was the Gold Medalist of the 1996 Leeds International Piano Competition where he also captured the Contemporary Music Award and the BBC Audience Award.
He won his first major piano competition while a student at the Moscow Conservatory in 1990, placing second in the Russian National Rachmaninov Competition, followed by winning top honors at the William Kapell Competition. In 1991, he won First Prize and the Special Chopin Prize at the Casadesus Competition (presently, the Cleveland International Piano Competition) and was awarded Best Performance of a Work of Mozart, Best Prokofiev Performance, and Third Prize at the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition.
Ilya Itin has toured as a soloist throughout Europe, Asia, South America, and the United States. He has performed with numerous world class orchestras including the Cleveland Orchestra, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic, the Israel Camerata Jerusalem, the China National Symphony, the Bilkent Symphony of Ankara, the Symphony Orchestra of India, the Mexico City Philharmonic, and the London Philharmonic.
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