Ilya Gringolts
Ilya Gringolts (born 2 July 1982 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg)) is a Russian violinist and composer.
Gringolts studied violin in St. Petersburg with Tatiana Liberova and Jeanna Metallidi. He then attended the Juilliard School, and studied violin with Itzhak Perlman for 3 years.[1] From 2001 to 2003, Gringolts was a member of the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists programme.
Gringolts is currently on the music faculty of the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. In addition to the modern violin, he has a continued commitment to period-instrument performance. He founded the Gringolts Quartet in 2008 and plays first violin in the quartet. Gringolts plays the "ex-Kiesewetter" Stradivarius violin, loaned to him by the Stradivari Society of Chicago.
Gringolts has made commercial recordings for such labels as Onyx[2] and Deutsche Grammophon.[3][4]
Gringolts is married to the Armenian violinist Anahit Kurtikyan. The couple have two daughters.[1] His sister Olga is married to violinist Maxim Vengerov.
Awards and prizes
- 1992: All-Russian Junior Competition, Second Prize
- 1994: International Youth Competition in St. Petersburg, First Prize
- 1995: Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists, Junior Division, Sixth Prize
- 1997: Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition, Junior Division, Laureate
- 1998: Paganini Competition in Genoa, Italy: First Prize
- 2001-2003: BBC New Generation Artist
- 2006: Gramophone Award for Chamber Music, recording of chamber music of the Sergei Taneyev Piano Quintet with Vadim Repin, Nobuko Imai, Lynn Harrell, and Mikhail Pletnev.
