Ilya Alexandrovich Gringolts (Russian: Илья Александрович Грингольц; born 2 July 1982) is a Russian violinist and educator.
Born in Leningrad, 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 donor.
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] His sister, Olga, is married to the 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.
References
- 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.