Ilya Shmukler - Concours Géza Anda 2024 - The Winner's Recital (Live) (2025) [Official Digital Download]

“Shmukler is a volcano”; “the name of Ilya Shmukler should be remembered” – that is how the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung described this pianist after his triumph at the world-renowned Concours Géza Anda 2024 in Zurich, Switzerland, where he won four special awards in addition to the First Prize.

When he was 3 years old, Moscow native Ilya Shmukler’s mother found him jumping on the bed and beautifully singing Robertino Loreti’s “Jamaica”. Thus recognizing his talent, she immediately made him take his first music lessons. It was important to Ilya’s non-musician parents, however, that he be raised as a well-rounded person, so his early years were also spent with school, table tennis, and ballroom dancing. But at 10, he says, his life changed after applying for and winning his first music competition and attending the subsequent international summer academy: “There I discovered a true musical life, and I fell in love with it, inspiring me to commit my life to music.”

He performed his first recital at age 12, and made his orchestral debut at 14. Since then, he made solo appearances in Europe and North America, and performed with such artists as Mikhail Pletnev, Paavo Järvi, Marin Alsop, Nicholas McGegan, Junichi Hirokami, Anne-Marie McDermott, Anton Nel and David Radzynski. Ilya Shmukler’s collaborations include the Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich, Musikkollegium Winterthur, the Mariinsky, Fort Worth Symphony, Sendai Philharmonic, Kansas City Chamber, Bayer-Symphoniker, and New Music Orchestras.

TRACKLIST

1. Ilya Shmukler - Piano Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 2 No. 1: I. Allegro (Concours Géza Anda 2024, Live)
2. Ilya Shmukler - Piano Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 2 No. 1: II. Adagio (Concours Géza Anda 2024, Live)
3. Ilya Shmukler - Piano Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 2 No. 1: III. Menuetto. Allegretto (Concours Géza Anda 2024, Live)
4. Ilya Shmukler - Piano Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 2 No. 1: IV. Prestissimo (Concours Géza Anda 2024, Live)
5. Ilya Shmukler - Piano Sonata No. 13 in A Major, D 664 (Op. posth. 120): I. Allegro moderato (Concours Géza Anda 2024, Live)
6. Ilya Shmukler - Piano Sonata No. 13 in A Major, D 664 (Op. posth. 120): II. Andante (Concours Géza Anda 2024, Live)
7. Ilya Shmukler - Piano Sonata No. 13 in A Major, D 664 (Op. posth. 120): III. Allegro (Concours Géza Anda 2024, Live)
8. Ilya Shmukler - Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S. 173: No. 7, Funérailles (Concours Géza Anda 2024, Live)
9. Ilya Shmukler - Suite Op. 14, SZ 62. BB 70: I. Allegretto (Concours Géza Anda 2024, Live)
10. Ilya Shmukler - Suite Op. 14, SZ 62. BB 70: II. Scherzo (Concours Géza Anda 2024, Live)
11. Ilya Shmukler - Suite Op. 14, SZ 62. BB 70: III. Allegro molto (Concours Géza Anda 2024, Live)
12. Ilya Shmukler - Suite Op. 14, SZ 62. BB 70: IV. Sostenuto (Concours Géza Anda 2024, Live)
13. Ilya Shmukler - Three Movements from Petrushka: No. 3, The Shrovetide Fair (Concours Géza Anda 2024, Live)



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