Ilya Rashkovskiy (born 17 November 1984, in Irkutsk) is a Russian pianist.

Education

Ilya Rashkovskiy debuted with the Irkutsk Chamber Orchestra at the age of eight. He studied from 1993 to 2000 at the Novosibirsk Special School of Music with Prof. M. Lebenzon, from 2000 to 2009 at the Musikhochschule Hannover with Prof. V. Krainev, and finally at the Ecole Normale Supérieure A. Cortot in Paris with Prof. M. Rybicki.

Competitions

Before being awarded the 1st Prize at the 8th Hamamatsu International Piano Competition in 2012, he was among the top prizewinners at international piano competitions such as M. Long-J. Thibaud in Paris, Queen Elisabeth in Brussels, A. Rubinstein in Tel Aviv, and the 1st

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. In 2015 he received the Jury Discretionary Award at the XV

International Tchaikovsky Competition The International Tchaikovsky Competition is a classical music competition held every four years in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Russia, for pianists, violinists, and cellists between 16 and 32 years of age and singers between 19 and 32 years of ...

Performances

Ilya Rashkovskiy has performed in important concert venues throughout the world, as well as in festivals such as La Roque d’Anthéron and Les Nuits du Piano d'Erbalunga in France, the Duszniki Zdroj Chopin Festival in Poland, and the "Joy of Music" Festival in Hong Kong. He has collaborated with the Russian State Symphony, the Kiev National Philharmonic, the

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, the Czech National Symphony and the New Japan Symphony. He is also active as a chamber musician and accompanist.

Recordings

He recorded the Seasons and the Sonata in c-sharp minor by

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on the

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label in 2008, Fantasies by Mozart, Chopin,

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on Alpha Omega Hong Kong in 2009, Chopin Complete Etudes on Victor Japan in 2013, Stravinsky, Giuseppe Andaloro,

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, Lutoslawski,

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and Monika Leskovar on Alpha Omega in 2014, violin sonatas by

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, with Ji-Yoon Park on

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in 2014, the complete Scriabin piano sonatas on NAR in 2015, and works of

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in 2016 for La Musica, France.

References

Naxos Records

Mariinsky Theatre

Official Website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rashkovskiy, Ilya 1984 births Living people Russian classical pianists Male classical pianists Prize-winners of the Queen Elisabeth Competition Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition prize-winners Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover alumni 21st-century classical pianists 21st-century Russian male musicians