Ilya Ivari (Piano) Ivari Ilja was born in Tallin, Estonia. He studied piano at the Tallin State Conservatoire under Laine Mets and at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory under Vera Gornostayeva and Sergey Dorensky.
He has won prizes at numerous national and international competitions, including the Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw and the Jose Vianna da Motta Piano Competition in Lisbon.
Mr Ilja has given recitals and has performed as a soloist with orchestras including the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and the St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra under such conductors as Arvo Volmer, Eri Klas, Leo Kramer, Veronica Dudarova, Urs Schneider, Roman Matsov, Imants Resnis and Andres Mustonen.
His repertoire includes Romantic works, such as those by Chopin, Brahms, and Schumann as well as works from different periods by composers ranging from Mozart to Prokofiev to Britten.
Mr Ilja has accompanied such singers as Irina Arkhipova, Maria Guleghina, Elena Zaremba, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky.
He has performed concerts in Russia, Finland, Sweden, the Baltic States, Japan, the US, Germany, Great Britain, Spain, Poland and France.
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