Ilya Kozlov graduated from the Secondary Special Music School of the St Petersburg State Conservatory named after N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov, then the Conservatory itself (class of Vladimir Ovcharek, People’s Artist of the RSFSR).
Ilya Kozlov receives scholarships from the New Names Foundation (Moscow, 1991), and the Maestro Temirkanov International Foundation for Cultural Initiatives. In 1997, at the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians, he won the third prize, and was also awarded a special prize for the best performance of a piece by Tchaikovsky. Ilya was awarded the honorary diploma at the Premio Mozart Festival at the Teatro Arriaga (Bilbao, Spain, 1994).
He has taken part in international festivals such as the Virtuosos 2000 International Festival at the Mariinsky Theatre (St Petersburg, 1992), the Rotterdam Philharmonic Gergiev Festival (1999), the Music Olympus International Festival in St Petersburg, the Usedomer Music Festival in Germany, the Northern Lyre International Festival, the Arts Square International Festival, the Stars of the White Nights Festival, the Musical Collection Festival, etc.
Since 2011, he has been concertmaster for second violinists in the Distinguished Orchestra of Russia, St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra.
Ilya Kozlov is the first violin in the Taneyev Quartet, Russia’s oldest chamber music ensemble. The Quartet actively performs, including as part of the All-Russian Philharmonic Seasons touring project of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.
As a soloist, Ilya has performed with various orchestras, such as the Mariinsky Orchestra, the Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage, the St Petersburg State Governor’s Symphony Orchestra, the St Petersburg State Academic Capella Orchestra, the Surgut and Vyatka Philharmonic Orchestras, the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and many others.
He has performed together with such renowned musicians as Nigel Kennedy, Eliso Virsaladze, and such conductors as Tugan Sokhiev, Charles Dutoit, Leo Krämer, Damian Iorio, Vassily Sinaisky, Nikolay Alexeev, Yuri Temirkanov and many others.
