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Ilya Itin, Russia, 1st Prize, 1991 
Born in Sverdlovsk Russia, Ilya Itin studied from the age of five with Natalia Litvinova at the Sverdlovsk Music School for gifted children. Later he graduated with the highest honors from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory where his teacher was Lev Naumov. Mr. Itin has lived in the United States since 1990 and has studied with Yin Cheng Zong since 1991.
He won the Chopin Prize in addition to the first prize in the 9th Robert Casadesus Competition in Cleveland in 1991. In 1996 he was the winner of the prestigious Leeds International Piano Competition. He made his BBC Proms debut in 1997, with the BBC Philharmonic under Vassily Sinaisky performing Grieg's Piano Concerto. He performed the Rachmaninov Concerto No. 3 in a highly praised Vienna debut under Sir Simon Rattle during Rattle's farewell European tour with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Itin has also performed with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra Prague Symphony, St Petersburg Philharmonic, The Philharmonia (under Mikahil Plentnev, and also Neeme Jarvi), the Tokyo Philharmonic, The Israel Camerata Jerusalem chamber orchestra (with whom he toured the U.S.), the Cleveland Orchestra and the National Symphony. His concert tours have also included engagements in China, South America, and Israel.
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1988 Ford Drive
Cleveland, Ohio 44106 USA