Pannon Philharmonic

Winner of the 1998 International Violin Competition “Premio Paganini”, Ilya Gringolts was also awarded two special prizes for the youngest ever competitor to be placed in the final and the best interpreter of Paganini’s Caprices.

Ilya Gringolts studied violin and composition at the St. Petersburg Special Music School with Tatiana Liberova and Jeanna Metallidi and at the Juilliard School in New York with Itzhak Perlman and the late Dorothy Delay. He was also one of twelve young artists selected by the BBC for their New Generation Artists Scheme.

In recent and forthcoming seasons, the artist has been invited to perform with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Daniel Barenboim, UBS Verbier Orchestra/Kurt Masur and Mstislav Rostropovich, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic/Zubin Mehta, with the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra/Yuri Temirkanov, Deutsche Symphonie Orchester Berlin, at the Proms with the BBC Philharmonic/Vassily Sinaisky, Rotterdam Philharmonic/Vladimir Jurowski, London Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony, BBC Symphony, BBC Scottish Symphony, Warsaw Philharmonic, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra and Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra.

Ilya Gringolts has also been invited to tour with the Camerata Salzburg/Sir Roger Norrington (West Coast of America), NDR Hannover/Vasily Petrenko (Hannover and tour to Spain), BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Jiri Belohlavek (Kuala Lumpur, Last night of the Proms), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony/Ilan Volkov, Prague Philharmonia, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and will be returning back to Asia, Australia and New Zealand in the forthcoming year.

In recital Ilya Gringolts broadcasts regularly on the BBC and has appeared at such prestigious venues as the Louvre Paris, Palais des Beaux Arts Brussels and the Wigmore Hall. He is also a regular guest at many international festivals such as La Jolla and Verbier Festival, where he has collaborated with artists such as Bashmet, Levine, Shaham, Kirshbaum, Ax and Andsnes. He has also appeared at the Ravinnia Rising Stars Festival, Bergen Festival, Colmar and the City of London Festival. In 07/08, Ilya Gringolts will give the world premiere by Sir Peter Maxwell at St. Magnus Festival and Cheltenham International Music Festival.

This year, Ilya Gringolts recorded the Beethoven Triple Concerto with Claudio Abbado/Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela for Deutsche Grammophon as well as a solo violin disc of Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst for Hyperion which includes the six Etudes, Erlkoenig, Otello Fantasy and Elegy. Most recently, he won a Gramophone Award for his Taneyev Chamber Music CD for Deutsche Grammophon. He has also made three previous recordings for Deutsche Grammophon and his third recording, of Prokofiev 1 and Sibelius, was released in 2004 to great critical acclaim. His previous recordings for DGG - of solo Bach and of the Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich No.1 Concertos - received outstanding reviews. His previous recordings for BIS Records have been greeted with a number of extraordinary accolades.

Ilya Gringolts plays a Ruggeri violin loaned to him by Otto Karl Schenk, Bern/Switzerland.