THE ARTISTS

THE LCO CHAMBER GROUP

Andrew HAVERON (violin)

The highest British prize-winner at the prestigious 'Paganini' competition for the last fifty years, Andrew Haveron is one of the UK's most sought after violinists. He was born in London in 1975 and took up the violin aged five. After studying at the Purcell School and London's Royal College of Music with Dr. Felix Andrievsky, Andrew also took prizes at the 'Queen Elisabeth' and Indianapolis competitions.

Since making his concerto debut aged fifteen Andrew has appeared with conductors such as Sir Roger Norrington, Kent Nagano, Stanislaw Skrowachewski, Raymond Leppard, John Lubbock, Jean- Jacques Kanteroff, Darrell Davison and John Wilson, performing a broad range of well known and less familiar repertoire.

In 1999 Andrew was appointed first violinist of the internationally acclaimed Brodsky Quartet. A busy schedule saw the quartet perform and broadcast in their unique style all over the world. Andrew recorded more than fifteen CDs with the quartet, many of which received industry awards such as "Diapason d'or" and "Choc du Monde".

Andrew also enjoys frequent invitations to guest lead major symphony orchestras including the London Symphony, the Royal Philharmonic and the Philharmonia orchestras and in July 2007 took up his post as leader of the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

In 2004 Andrew received an honorary Doctorate from the University of Kent for his services to music.

Andrew plays on a violin made for him in 2001 by the American luthier Sam Zygmuntowicz.

Magnus JOHNSTON (violin)

Magnus was a founding member of the Johnston Quartet (now the Elias Quartet) with which he played for five years; he led the quartet in performances across the UK, most notably in the 2001 Schubertfest where the quartet were joined by Ralph Kirshbaum to perform Schubert's String Quintet. Magnus also led the quartet to win second prize in the London String Quartet Competition, where they won the special prize for their performance of Dutilleux's Ainsi La Nuit.

Magnus is the founder and leader of the Aronowitz Ensemble. Since its sell-out debut at St John's, Smith Square, the ensemble has had a busy schedule of engagements across the UK and beyond, including performances at the Aldeburgh, Cambridge, Cheltenham, Chichester, City of London, Newbury and Spoleto Festivals, the Wigmore Hall, St George's Bristol and Queen's University Belfast and, following Artists' Residencies at Snape Maltings, the inaugural Aldeburgh Residencies tour in 2006. As members of the BBC's prestigious New Generation Artists scheme, the Aronowitz Ensemble's performances have featured regularly on BBC Radio 3.

He plays a Hieronymus II Amati violin.

Joel HUNTER (viola)

Joel Hunter is in great demand both as a principal orchestral player and as a chamber musician. Having graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in London in 1997 he has performed all over the the world with many leading ensembles and orchestras working regularly under conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Zubin Mehta, Pierre Boulez, Valery Gergiev and Lorin Maazel.

Having spent three years as Co-Principal Viola with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Glasgow from 1998-2001, he returned to London to embark on a busy and diverse freelance career. In 2005 he was appointed Principal Viola in the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Stockholm but has continued with commitments in the UK and works as guest Principal Viola in the London Chamber Orchestra and many other orchestras including the Philharmonia and BBC National Orchestra of Wales. In May 2009 he accepted the position of Principal with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.

As a chamber musician Joel has appeared alongside such eminent artists as Yo-Yo Ma, Augustin Dumay, Piers Lane, Pascal Roge, Christian Tetzlaff and members of both the Vogler and Artemis quartets in concerts throughout the world. He has toured Italy, Hungary and France as a member of the Cat quartet and regularly performs at international festivals most recently in Germany at the Mecklenburg Vorpommern Festival with the Kungsbacker String Trio and in the U.S.A at the Charlottesville International Chamber Music Festival.

He is a member and director of the Goldberg Ensemble playing frequently throughout the UK and specializing in new music with its own critically acclaimed contemporary music festival running alongside a highly successful chamber music series in Manchester. Invitations to join ensembles such as The Wakeford Ensemble, Chamber Domaine and The London Conchord Ensemble have led to highly acclaimed performances and recordings, most recently of Gorecki and Ned Rorem on Black Box Classics and Nicola Lefanu with Naxos.

In 2001 he was made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music for his services to the profession.

Pierre DOUMENGE (cello)

French cellist Pierre Doumenge enjoys a busy career divided between solo work, chamber music and teaching.

From 2001 to 2005 he was a member of the Dante Quartet performing at major venues in Europe and making regular radio and commercial recordings.

Pierre has also worked as guest principal cellist of the English Chamber Orchestra, the London Chamber Orchestra and more recently the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

Passionately fond of chamber music, Pierre has explored and performed the repertoire with artists such as Lars Vogt, Pascal Rogé, Anna-Maria Vera, Ian Brown, Pekka Kuusisto, Vasko Vassilev, Lawrence Power, the Belcea and Allegri Quartets and the Nash Ensemble. He has appeared in festivals such as the Aldeburgh, City of London, Bath, Three Choirs, Dartington, Kuhmo, Paunat, Nuremberg, Toyama and regularly performs at the Wigmore Hall, the Purcell Room, St David’s Hall Cardiff, the Kennedy Centre Washington, the Théâtre du Châtelet Paris and the Hong Kong City Hall.

He was chosen to be the official cellist of the Menuhin International Violin Competition 2008, playing the Ravel Sonata with the nine semi-finalists.

Pierre has taught cello and chamber music at the Yehudi Menuhin School since 2003, a position now ending due to his recent appointment as Associate Deputy Head of Strings at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. From September 2009, Pierre will be responsible for the management of strings groups across the Guildhall, including coaching, concerts, assessments and liaison with ensembles-in-residence.

He is regularly invited to give masterclasses at the Oxford Cello School, the Eton International Cello Course, the Violoncello Society of London, the West Helsinki Music Institute (Finland), the Conservatoire Royal de Mons (Belgium) and the Simon Goldberg’s Seminars in Toyama (Japan).

Engagements this season include performances of the complete Beethoven Cello Sonatas with pianist Daniel Tong, the Brahms Double Concerto with Corina Belcea, a tour of Rumania with the Nash Ensemble and the Schubert B flat piano trio with Marianne Thorsen and Andrew West at the Wigmore Hall in London.

Timothy ORPEN (clarinet)

Since winning the Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition in 2005 Timothy Orpen has established himself as one of the leading clarinetists of his generation. Described by The Times as a ‘blazing talent’, he has performed as a soloist across Europe and at the Wigmore Hall, Royal Albert Hall and with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

Timothy made his Wigmore Hall debut in 2005 supported by the Musicians Benevolent Fund. He also appeared to critical acclaim at the Purcell Room as part of the Park Lane Group New Year series. Last year Timothy gave a series of recitals in Singapore, New Zealand and Australia, and appeared in recital at the Wigmore Hall supported by the Royal Over-Seas League and the Park Lane Group. Following this recital he was chosen as one of the ‘best young British musicians of today’ by The Telegraph. Recent concerto highlights include the Mozart Clarinet Concerto at the Royal Albert Hall with Sir David Willcocks and Malcolm Arnold’s Clarinet Concerto No. 2 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Barry Wordsworth. Timothy is committed to new music and has given many world premieres, including a concerto which was written for him earlier this year by composer Graham Ross. As a chamber musician Timothy has collaborated with the Allegri, Badke, Barbirolli, Carducci, Doric, Heath, and Sacconi String Quartets and sopranos Elizabeth Watts, Lucy Crowe and Sally Matthews. Other chamber music performances include Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time with pianist Melvyn Tan and concerts across Europe aboard Fred Olsen Cruise Lines. Timothy is also a teacher of clarinet at Wells Cathedral School and recently recorded 2 CDs of music for clarinet and piano for the Associated Board.

Timothy studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London and at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, Germany with Wolfgang Meyer. He has also attended classes with Sabine Meyer, Michael Collins, Charles Neidich and Paul Meyer.

Last year Timothy was appointed co-Principal clarinet of the London Chamber Orchestra by Christopher Warren-Green and he has also performed as guest principal clarinet for many of the UK’s leading orchestras. Timothy is the principal clarinet and founder member of the Aurora Orchestra, now in their 5th season, with whom he has performed John Adams’ Clarinet Concerto Gnarly Buttons.

Pascal ROGE (piano)

Born in Paris, Pascal Rogé became an exclusive Decca recordingartist at the age of 17. He has won many prestigious awards including two Gramophone awards, a Grand Prix du Disque and an Edison Award for his interpretations of the Ravel and Saint-Saëns concertos. Other recordings include the complete piano works of

Poulenc and Ravel, four albums of Satie and two of Debussy and a Bartok cycle with the London Symphony Orchestra. For the Poulenc Edition in 1999 Mr Rogé recorded both piano concertos, the Aubade and the Concerto Champêtre all under Charles Dutoit.

For Oehms Classics Mr Rogé recorded, to unanimous acclaim, the Ravel G Major and Gershwin concertos with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra under Bertrand de Billy and has now recorded a second disc with the same forces which includes the Ravel Left Hand Piano Concerto, Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris. Pascal Rogé’s latest recording project is the Rogé Edition, released on the Onyx Classics label. The first CD release in May 2005 inaugurated his first complete Debussy cycle with the Préludes and was followed by a

second disc including Estampes and Children’s Corner early in 2007.

In March 2008 the third volume was released containing Images and Pour le Piano. Also for Onyx he has released a disc of Mozart concertos with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra conducted by Raymond Leppard.

Pascal Rogé has performed in almost every major concert hall in the world. Some of the orchestras he has appeared with include the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony, L’Orchestre de Paris, L’Orchestre National de Radio France, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Leipzig Gewandhaus and all the major London orchestras.

He appears regularly in the United States and is a frequent guest artist in Australia, New Zealand, Latin America and especially Japan. Among his recent British engagements are recitals at Wigmore Hall, Symphony Hall Birmingham and the Queen Elizabeth Hall where he is a frequent guest of the International Piano Series.

Pascal Rogé is the Artistic Director of Incontri in Terra di Siena, a summer festival that takes place each year in Tuscany. He is enjoying playing recitals of music for four hands/one piano with his wife, the pianist Ami Rogé.

Gary GRAFFMAN (piano)

The celebrated pianist Gary Graffman has been a major figure in the music world since winning the prestigious Leventritt Award in 1949. For the next three decades he toured almost continuously, playing the most demanding works in the piano literature both in recital and with the world's great orchestras. He also made a series of highly acclaimed recordings for Columbia (CBS and RCA, including concertos by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Brahms, Chopin and Beethoven with the orchestras of New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago and Boston, and with such conductors as Leonard Bernstein, Zubin Mehta, Eugene Ormandy and George Szell.

In 1979, however, Mr. Graffman's performing career was curtailed by an injury to his right hand. His performances are now limited to the small but brilliant repertoire of concertos written for the left hand alone, most of them commissioned early in the century by Paul Wittgenstein, who lost his right arm in World War I. In addition to the famous Ravel Concerto, these include major works by Prokofiev, Britten, Richard Strauss, Franz Schmidt and Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Mr. Graffman played the North American premiere of the latter concerto, written in 1924, with Zubin Mehta and the New York Philharmonic in 1985 and has recorded the Strauss "Parergon" for Deutsche Grammophon with the Vienna Philharmonic led by André Previn.

The reduction in Mr. Graffman's concert activity has provided him with a remarkable opportunity to expand his horizons beyond the stage. Most notable has been his leadership of the renowned Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He first joined its piano faculty in 1980 and became Director of the all-scholarship conservatory in 1986, following such illustrious predecessors as Josef Hofmann, Efrem Zimbalist and Rudolf Serkin. He was appointed President of The Curtis Institute in 1995, a position he served until May 2006.

Gary Graffman's performing career was auspiciously linked to his academic life in 1993, when he joined conductor André Previn and the Symphony Orchestra of the Curtis Institute of Music for the world-premiere performances of Ned Rorem's Piano Concerto No. 4 (for the Left Hand). Dedicated to Mr. Graffman by the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer-who is also a Curtis alumnus and faculty member-the concerto was performed at Philadelphia's Academy of Music and, a day later, at Carnegie Hall. A compact disc recording of the premiere is available on New World Records. He went on to perform this work with the San Francisco Symphony and Zurich's Tonhalle Orchestra.

In April 1996 Mr. Graffman performed the world premiere of William Bolcom's "Gaea" Concerto for Piano and Two Left Hands with his friend and colleague Leon Fleisher. The work, commissioned jointly by the Baltimore, St. Louis and Pacific symphonies, was given its premiere by the two soloists and David Zinman and the Baltimore Symphony, first in Baltimore and then at Carnegie Hall. It was subsequently heard with the Saint Louis and Pacific symphonies and, in November 1998, with the Philadelphia Orchestra, again with David Zinman conducting.

In continuing his championing of new works for piano left hand and orchestra, in 2001-02 Mr. Graffman gave world premiere performances of three concertos, all of which were written for him: Daron Hagen's "Seven Last Words" with the New Mexico Symphony and Buffalo Philharmonic; Richard Danielpour's "Zodiac" Variations with the National Symphony in Washington, D.C.; and Luis Prado's Concerto for Left Hand with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. In March 2003 he premiered another concerto written for him, this one by Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, with the Minnesota Orchestra. This work was recorded by Reference Recordings.

In the summer of 2005, Gary Graffman received an invitation to head the piano department at the new Canton International Summer Music Academy in Guandong, China, giving him an opportunity to explore his love of education, chamber music, and Chinese culture. He has also participated in the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Chamber Music Northwest and the 10th Anniversary of Morningside Music Bridge held in Shanghai in 2006.

Gary Graffman is the author of the highly praised memoir, "I Really Should Be Practicing," published by Doubleday in 1981 and issued in paperback by Avon the following year. He has also written popular articles on non-musical subjects and found time to pursue a scholarly interest in Asian Art (which he collects) and photography. He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Pennsylvania and The Juilliard School, among others. He has received honors from the City of New York with its Handel Medallion, the City of Philadelphia on its Walk of Fame, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as recipient of the Governor's Arts Award, recognizing him for his varied accomplishments, including his "leadership of Curtis."

Gary Graffman was born in New York, of Russian parents, and began to play the piano at age three. His father, a violinist, gave him a small fiddle, but when the instrument proved too cumbersome, he began piano lessons, though a return to the violin was planned. The young Graffman's affinity for the piano soon became evident, however, and at seven the Curtis Institute accepted him to study with the renowned Isabelle Vengerova-exactly 50 years before he would become the school's director. After graduation from Curtis, he worked intensively for several years with Vladimir Horowitz and, during the summers, at the Marlboro Music Festival with Rudolf Serkin.

Alvaro PIERRI (guiter)

Alvaro Pierri is internationally acclaimed as a leading personality in the world of the guitar. Press reviews around the world praise “his masterly thought-out interpretations“... “the breathtaking phrasing“...and “the unmatched musical colour spectrum that he creates on the guitar“ . Alvaro Pierri was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, into a family of musicians. He received his early musical education from his mother, Ada Estades, on

the piano and his aunt, Olga Pierri, on the guitar. Later he studied with Abel Carlevaro, the composer Guido Santorsola and also at the Uruguayan National Institute of Musicology. From the age of 11 he was already winning prizes in international guitar competitions, including 1st Prize in the International Guitar Competition in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1st Prize in the International Guitar Competition in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and the Gold Medal at the 18th International Competition by France Musique/Radio France in Paris.

Pierri’s debut in the USA took place in New York and received outstanding reviews: … “Mr. Pierri revealed an artistic maturity not commonly encountered” … “compared to artists as Segovia, Bream, Williams” … “brilliant, sensitive, versatile, breathtaking” (New York Times & Continental Reviews). In 1983 he made his debut in Germany with the string soloists of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and he subsequently appeared on numerous radio and television programmes in Germany, Austria, Spain, France, Denmark, Canada, Korea and Japan.

As a musician popular with both the public and the critics, Pierri is a regular guest at the major concert houses of Europe, North and South America, and Asia. Contemporary composers such as Leo Brouwer, Guido Santorsola, Jacques Hétu, Astor Piazzolla, Abel Carlevaro, Carlo Domeniconi and Terry Riley have written major works for Alvaro Pierri and in each case he has premiered them brilliantly. His manifest love of chamber music has resulted in collaborations with major musical figures including Astor Piazzolla, Hatto Beyerle, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Ernö Sebestien, Regis Pasquier, Philippe Müller, Leo Brouwer, Alcides Lanza, Terry Riley, Tracy Silverman, Maureen Forrester, Eduardo Fernandez, the Cherubini Quartet and the Turtle Island String Quartet, and he has also worked with conductors such as Pinchas Steinberg, Charles Dutoit, Wojciech Rajski, Mario Bernardi and Yannick Nezet-Séguin. Alvaro Pierri’s CDs have been released by Metropole-Polydor (France), Blue Angel-2001 (Germany), Milan Records (Canada), Analekta (Canada), Amplitude (Canada), Madacy (Canada), HOMA (Japan) and The Alpha Omega Sound (Hong Kong). His discography includes solo recordings, chamber music, guitar concerts and electro-acoustic music. Several of his CDs have been honoured with prices and nominations and he has already received twice the coveted Canadian FELIX award for the best classical CD of the year. Recently Pioneer Classics Japan brought out a DVD featuring him playing Spanish and South American guitar music, and Deutsche Grammophon re-issued a DVD of Astor Piazzolla’s Double Concerto with Alvaro Pierri performing in duo with Astor Piazzolla. Alvaro Pierri is also an internationally acclaimed teacher. Many of his students have won major international guitar competitions. He was professor at the University of Santa Maria in Brazil and subsequently ran a guitar class at McGill University and the UQAM (Academy of Music) in Montreal. In 2002 he was appointed professor at the famous Academy of music in Vienna (today University of Music and Performing Arts).

Pierri gives master classes at major music festivals such as the New York Manhattan Masters, GFA Guitar Foundation of America, Québec FIG, the SIG Séminaire International de Guitare in Paris and Bordeaux, in Barcelona, at the Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg, the Wiener Meisterkurse, the Villa Musica in Mainz, and also in Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul and at The Joy of Music Festival in Hong Kong. In recognition of his outstanding artistic talent and carreer and his permanent enriching contribution to the culture, in 2008, Alvaro Pierri was awarded the honorary citizenship of his hometown Montevideo.

The Alpha Omega Sound, the recording label of The Chopin Society of Hong Kong Ltd., will be releasing Alvaro Pierri’s first of a series of recordings he is planning to record under this label. The CD to be released has been entirely recorded by Mr. Pierri at Abbey Road Studios in London.

With the present CD, Alvaro Pierri is embarking on a long term project with The Alpha Omega Sound, to record a comprehensive series of sonatas specifically composed for guitar and spanning the 19th to the 21st centuries. The collection, which will not necessarily be issued in chronological order of the compositions, will not contain transcriptions or shorter pieces but will focus exclusively on the superb body of music specifically composed and developed in a sonata form for the guitar

Jinsang LEE (piano)

Born in 1981 in Seoul, South Korea, he began to play the piano at the age of seven. He commenced his studies at the Seoul Arts High School and then continued at the Korean National University of Arts, where he studied with Prof. Daejin Kim. From 2003 until 2006 he studied at the Nuremberg University of Music under Profs. Wolfgang Manz and Julia Goldstein. From 2006 onwards he has been studying at the Cologne University of Music, under Prof. Pavel Gililov.

Jinsang has won prizes in several competitions including: the 2nd Prize and Audience Prize at the Sendai International Music Competition in 2001; the 1st Prize, Scarlatti Prize and Orchestra Prize at the International Pianoforte Competition in Cologne in 2005 and in October 2008, the 1st Prize at the 2nd. Hong Kong International Piano Competition, an event organized by the Chopin Society of Hong Kong. Following this success Jinsang won the 1st Prize at the 2009 Geza Anda International Piano Competition (Zurich) including the Mozart, Schumann and the public prizes.

He has played with various orchestras, among which: The City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong , the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, the Nuremberg Symphonic Orchestra, the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra and the WDR Radio Orchestra Cologne. Conductors he has worked with include Vladimir Ashkenazy, Christopher Warren-Green, Michel Brousseau and Peter Gülke.

He has played solo and in concert in various cities including Hong Kong, Chicago, Los Angeles, Berlin, Essen, Siena, Athens, Sendai, Nagoya as well as in various venues and events including the Philarmonie in Cologne, the Seoul Arts centre, the Meistersingerhalle in Nuremberg, the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, the Robert –Schumann-Saal in Dusseldorf, the Klavierfestival Ruhr (Germany), the Lake District Summer Music Festival (England), the Festival Palazzo Montepulciano (Italy) and the Joy of Music Festival (Hong Kong).

During the 2009/10 season, Jinsang will be performing in Madrid, Paris, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Manila, Kuala Lumpur and in different cities in Germany.

Ilya RASHKOVSKIY (piano)

lya Rashkovskiy was born in Irkutsk, Russia, in 1984. He started studying piano at the age of five, first in his native city and then from 1992, in Novosibirsk in its famous music school for specially gifted children with Professor Mary Lebenzon. At the age of ten, he participated in his first international competition for young pianists in Marsala, Italy, and won the first prize.

In 1998 he won the first prize at the Vladimir Krainev international competition for young pianists and was invited by the chairman of the jury, Prof. Vladimir Krainev, to study with him at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hanover, Germany, becoming a student there in 2000. A year later, in 2001, he won the second prize as well as the public prize at the M. Long – J. Thibaud competition in Paris while in 2005 he was awarded the first prize at the Jaen International Piano competition which gave him the opportunity to perform in several cities in Spain. An important point in his career was winning in September 2005, the first prize at the First Hong Kong International Piano Competition under the chairmanship of the jury byVladimir Ashkenazy. Immediately afterwards, he was invited to play recitals in China, at the Shanghai Oriental Arts Center and at the Beijing Forbidden City Concert Hall, and few months later he was also invited back to Hong Kong to perform with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of E. de Waart.

In December 2006, he was invited to Hong Kong for the Joy of Music Festival organized by The Chopin Society of HK, where he performed a recital of piano fantasies by different composers. He then gave this recital in Manila, Guanzhou, Taipei, Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok. In December 2007, he participated again in the Joy of Music Festival in Hong Kong, playing a program entitled: “Inspired by Dance” which he then presented in performances in Manila, Singapore, Jakarta and Hanoi.

Ilya has performed at many of the world's important venues including in France at Salle Gaveau, Théâtre du Châtelet, at the festival La Roque d'Antheron and at the Festival Serres d’Ateuil; in Russia at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory and at the Saint-Petersburg Philharmony; in the Ukraine at the Kiev Philharmony; in Japan he played at the Suntory Hall in Tokyo and at the Symphony Hall in Osaka while in Holland at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and at the De Deulen Concertgebouw in Rotterdam.

In Poland he played at the Chopin Festival in Duszniki and in Italy at the Emiglia Romagna Festival. He also participated in the Brahms Festival in Montevideo, Uruguay and he collaborated as soloist with the Czech National Symphony, the New Japan Symphony and the Orchestre National de Lille and with the LCO (London Chamber Orchestra) under the baton of maestro Christopher Warren-Green.

His debut CD for Naxos with Tchaikovsky’s the “Seasons” and Sonata in c-sharp minor, was released in October 2008.

Ilya has recorded his recital program of PIANO FANTASIES for the Alpha Omega Sound label of The Chopin Society of Hong Kong Ltd., remastered at the Abbey Road Studios in London, which will be released in October 2009 to coincide with his participation at the Joy of Music Festival in Hong Kong during the same month.