The Golandsky Institute

Prokofiev Old and New:
From Beloved to Unknown

Pre-concert Lecture
Princeton University Prokofiev Scholar Simon Morrison, who restored the score of Music for Athletes with permission of the Sergei Prokofiev Estate and the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, will introduce the work before its world premiere.
Program
     
Music for Athletes (World Premiere)
Ilya Itin, piano
Jenny Scholick, choreography

Peter and the Wolf
(Composer’s version for solo piano)
Ilya Itin, piano
Paul Muldoon, narrator

Piano Sonata No. 7
Allegro inquieto
Andante caloroso
Precipitato
Ilya Itin, piano

Simon Morrison, Professor of Music at Princeton University, is the foremost music historian on the life and work of Sergei Prokofiev. He has completed two comprehensive books, including recently The People’s Artist: Prokofiev’s Soviet Years.

Paul Muldoon is a renowned Pulitzer Prize winning poet and poetry editor at The New Yorker.

Ilya Itin “plays magnificently with all his body and soul: a very gifted pianist and musician.” (Le Figaro)

Biography

Since winning all the major prizes of the renowned Leeds International Pianoforte Competition in 1996, Russian born Ilya Itin’s consummate pianism has delighted audiences on four continents. He has been praised for “his rare and exciting artistry” and “superb technique” (Daily Telegraph UK). “The perfect pianist Ilya Itin succeeded in transforming the romantic revelry of Rachmaninov’s 3rd Piano concerto into rhythmic force and compactness” (Der Standard Wien).

Recently, he has been performing throughout the USA; touring with the Jerusalem Camerata, performing at the Kennedy Center Washington “A delicious and rare talent” (Washington Post) and the Lincoln Center, New York, as well as major festivals from Miami Festival of Discovery and Beethoven on the Beach, both in Florida, to Mainly Mozart Festival in California. Last year he made his conducting debut in Costa Rica with the Chamber Orchestra of Uppsala in a much-admired performance of 1st Piano Concerto by Shostakovich as well as his debut at Theatre des Champs Elysees Paris. “He plays marvelously with all his body and his soul: a very great pianist and musician” (Le Figaro)

Born in Ekaterinburg, Ilya Itin studied from the age of five with Natalia Litvinova at the Sverdlovsk Music School for gifted children. He graduated the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory where his teacher was Lev Naumov. He is working with Edna Golandsky and has been a grateful recipient of support from Patrons of Exceptional Artists.

For more information please visit www.ilyaitin.com