Ilya Ioff Skripach Biography

IOFF Ilya Veniaminovich violinist. Honored Artist of Russia. Honorary member of the Philharmonic Society of St. Petersburg. Laureate of the international competition of chamber ensembles named after J. Viotti and the owner of a special prize of the international competition of Bavarian radio. He heads the ensemble "Diverthysement". Associate Professor of the St. Petersburg Conservatory.

From school years, Ilya IOFF attracted the attention of the Leningrad public.

A warm, rich sound, masterful possession of the instrument, not childishly mature interpretation were already awarded both listeners and professors of the Leningrad Conservatory, and among the latter-an outstanding Soviet violinist, professor B. During training at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, he proved himself to be a mature musician with the current technical arsenal and musician a worldview, and during the passage of graduate school, Professor V.

Ovcharek also established himself as a talented teacher. An extraordinary human individuality and mobility in the instrumental sense attract not only listeners, but also modern St. Petersburg composers to the personality of I. Joff. Some of them - People's Artists of Russia B. Tishchenko, S. Slonimsky, G. Korchmar, L. Tentricov - trusted and trust him with the first performance of the works they wrote.

As a soloist and ensembles, he acted with such outstanding musicians as M. Argerich, M. Yangons, Yu. Temirkanov, S. Stadler, A. Rudin and others. Ilya Ioff has a huge repertoire. It is performed by the works of all the most significant authors in the history of music, which wrote for the violin - from I. Bach to L. Viotti in Verchelli Italy. Joff and in this field.

A careful attitude to the traditions of the ensemble created over the past years by Professor E. Komarova by the former artistic director is adjacent to the creation of an absolutely individual criterion for the sound of the collective and his own repertoire policy. Over the past seasons, concerts included the works of the last three centuries, from Vivaldi and Bach to Schnita and Chaplin.

Such a breadth of repertoire and the healthy “omnivorous” ensemble gained well -deserved success among the Russian, European, Japanese and American public. Ilya Ioff recorded several CDs. In addition to performing activities, the musician is conducted by a violin class at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. In the year he was awarded the title Honored Artist of Russia. Shostakovich Entrance:.