Violin lessons.
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I teach all levels and ages. Please contact me for rates.
MM- Eastman School of Music
BM- Peabody Conservatory
Please go to: www.youtube.com/IVD2011 for samples of my playing.
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Violinist, teacher, and composer Ilya Dobrovitsky is a versatile musician with an international foundation for an exciting and developing career that has been honored with prizes, scholarships and enthusiastically received performances.
Ilya Dobrovitsky has performed as a soloist in the United States, Russia, Sweden, Italy, and Taiwan. In 2011, Ilya Dobrovitsky won the first place in the American Protégé International Competition and the AFAF Golden Strings Competition. He was also awarded the Distinguished Musician Award at the IBLA Grand Prize International Competition (Ragusa, Italy). In the same year, Mr. Dobrovitsky participated in the Yankelevitch International Violin Competition (Omsk, Russia). He was also a prize winner at the All-State, Maryland MTNA Competition, and winner of the Peabody Preparatory Concerto Competition. As an emerging violinist at the Peabody Preparatory, Ilya had appeared as soloist with the Peabody Sinfonietta multiple times.
Mr. Dobrovitsky has received the J.C. Van Hulstein Award, for outstanding achievement in string playing, and was also awarded the Lindred Scott Bendann Endowed Scholarship, at the Peabody Conservatory. He is currently a recipient of the Artistic Scholarship, at the Southern Methodist University – Meadows School of the Arts (Dallas, TX). As a member of the chamber ensemble Ossia, Mr. Dobrovitsky has appeared on WXXI-FM public radio show, "Backstage Pass", hosted by J. Figueras. Other notable performances include a solo appearance at the Weill Recital Hall (Carnegie Hall), an appearance at the Kennedy Center, as a member of the Peabody Symphony Orchestra, and a solo appearance at the Lake George Music Festival (2011). Ilya has also participated in numerous international festivals such as: ENCORE School for Strings, Summit Music Festival, and Bowdoin Music Festival. In 2010, Mr. Dobrovitsky was loaned the 1714, “May-Jaquet” Stradivari violin and Sartory bow, by the Eastman School of music.
In an orchestral setting, Ilya has worked with such conductors as: Jaime Laredo, Gustav Meier, and Marin Alsop. A recent, major project has included the making of a professional CD—with soloist Charles Castleman—of the Violin Concerto of Benjamin Boretz—this recording will be released on the Open Space Records CD# 23. As a composer, Mr. Dobrovitsky's works have been premiered in the Eastman School of Music, SMU - Meadows School of Art, Bowdoin International Music Festival, IBLA Grand Prize Competition, and Lake George Music Festival.
Born in Moscow, Russia into a musical family, Ilya Dobrovitsky began his studies at the prestigious Gnessin School of Music. Upon immigration to the USA, Ilya continued his studies at the Peabody Conservatory and the Eastman School of Music. Currently, Mr. Dobrovitsky is continuing his studies in the studio of Emanuel Borok (former concertmaster of the Dallas Symphony), at the Southern Methodist University, and he is also studying composition with Simon Sargon. Ilya's teachers have included: Mikhail Kopelman, Victor Danchenko, Cyrus Forough, Natalia Fischtengoltz, Eleonora Polonsky, and Leri Slutsky. Some of the notable master classes in which Ilya has performed have included: Mikhail Kopelman, Aaron Rosand, Joseph Kalichstein, Sylvia Rosenberg, Ilya Kaler, Frank Huang, Stephen Rose, and William Preucil. To continue, in the field of chamber music, Ilya has been coached by, among others, Mikhail Kopelman (of the Borodin, Tokyo, and Kopelman Quartets) and Matt Albert (of the eighth blackbird ensemble). |
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| Teacher Name: |
Ilya V Dobrovitsky
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| Email: |
idobrov85@gmail.com
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| Home AFM Local Number and City: |
Local 72-147, Dallas
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| Added: | 2012.01.20 |
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