Ilya Gringolts

Violinist and educator

Ilya Gringolts (Russian: Илья́ Алекса́ндрович Гринго́льц Il′já Aleksándrovič Gringól′c) born 2 July 1982 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) is a violinist and educator.

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-Prové" Stradivarius violin, loaned to him by a private donour.

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 has three daughters.^[1]

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.

References

^ ^a ^b Inge Kyemtrup (February 2011). "Ilya Gringolts: The Man, the Myth, the Musician on the Move". Strings. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
^ Andrew Clements (1 July 2010). "Schumann: Violin Sonatas Nos 1–3". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 December 2014.
^ Andrew Clements (15 August 2003). "Bach: Partita Nos 1 in B minor and 3 in E; Sonata No 2 in A: Ilya Gringolts". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 December 2014.
^ Andrew Clements (29 July 2005). "Taneyev: Piano Quintet Op 30; Piano Trio Op 22, Repin/ Gringolts/ Imai/ Harrell/ Pletnev". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 December 2014.