Key Biscayne Piano Festival Presents: Ilya Itin

Born in Yekaterinburg, Russia, his piano studies began at the Sverdlovsk School for the Gifted with Natalia Litvinova. He went on to graduate from the Moscow Conservatory with the highest honors in 1990 working with legendary teacher Lev Naumov. Mr. Itin won his first major piano competition while at the Conservatory, taking second place in the 1990 Russian National Rachmaninov Competition. Soon after, he won top honors in the William Kapell Competition, followed by First Prize, and the Special Chopin Prize at the Casadesus Competition (Cleveland Competition), and the Best Performance of a Work of Mozart, Best Prokofiev Performance, and Third Prize at the Gina Bachauer Competition.

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Program

• CHOPIN
• Nocturne Op. posthumous in C sharp minor
• Mazurka Op. 30 No 4 in C sharp minor
• Barcarolle Op 60 in F sharp Major
• Valse Op 70 No 2 in F minor
• Valse Op 64 No 3 in A flat major
• Valse Op 64 No 2 in C sharp minor
• Nocturne Op 27 No 1 in C sharp minor
• Nocturne Op 27 No 2 in D flat Major
• Ballade Op. 47 No 3 in A flat Major
• MUSSORGSKY
• Pictures at an Exhibition
• Promenade
• The Gnome
• Promenade
• The Old Castle
• Promenade (2nd)
• Tuileries (Children’s Quarrel after Games)
• Cattle
• Promenade (3rd)
• Ballet of Unhatched Chicks
• “Samuel” Goldenberg and ‘Schmuÿle”
• Promenade
• Limoges. The Market (The Great News)
• Catacombs (Roman Tomb) – With the Dead in a Dead Language
• The Hut on Hen’s Legs (Baba Yaga)
• The Bogatyr Gates (In the Capital in Kiev)

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MIAMI INTERNATIONAL PIANO FESTIVAL

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