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Violinist.com interview with Ilya Gringolts: Paganini 24 Caprices
Laurie Niles
April 17, 2014, 11:08 AM · When I spoke with Ilya Gringolts before he was to serve on the jury for the Menuhin Competition, I was very interested in the fact that he had just recorded all the 24 Paganini Caprices last November.
After all, here is someone who won First Prize in the 1998 Paganini Competition, also having received special prizes that year for being the youngest-ever competitor to be placed in the final and the best interpreter of Paganini’s Caprices. What is his take on these wickedly difficult violin works, 16 years later? Certainly his new recording has caused a bit of a stir, as it casts these much-recorded and studied works in new light and does not easily fit the old aural grooves.
So while I was in Austin to write about the Menuhin Competition and Ilya was there serving as a jurist, we sat down over coffee and talked about the Paganini. These days he is Professor of Violin at the Zurich Hochschule, and an International Fellow at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. We spoke about his history with the Paganini Caprices, the limited value these works have as a teaching tool, and also about the importance of consulting an urtext edition when preparing them for
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Ilya Gringolts: Music is a language. Just speak the language.
Jacqueline Vanasse
May 7, 2018, 1:35 PM · Baroque, contemporary, solo, chambers, orchestral works, the Russian violinist Ilya Gringolts plays it all. He tries to keep his options open and his repertoire as broad as possible. It goes from ancient music on old instruments to new music and commissions, and then, of course, string quartets, and everything that is left in between, which is a lot. "I think these days you can’t just play the main stream repertoire. I don’t think anyone can afford that anymore. I would find it boring to just play the same things over and over again, I would not know what to do with it, I want to keep learning."
I always admired Gringolts' musical drives and overall enchanting crystal sound. Interviewing him was marvelously inspiring. He is an extremely alive and passionate musician. We discussed difficulties associated to music performance today and the different roles of the music teachers, students and performers. He also talked about the charms and beauties of Dutilleux’s Violin Concerto: L’Arbre des songes, which he was going to perform the next day in Taipei.
Ilya Gringolts. Image courtesy of the artist.
Gringolts strongly believes in performing new music. He is sorry t
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