the Miami International Piano Festival. Studies Itin began his piano studies at age four, working throughout his childhood with Natalia Litvinova at the Sverdlovsk Music Conservatory for Gifted Children. Itin continued his studies with Lev Naumov at the Moscow Conservatory, graduating with the highest honors in 1990. Recordings On March 7, 2010, Itin recorded two live recitals in one day at the Miami International Piano Festival's Master Pianists Series, which have recently been released on the VAI label. This "Russian piano music marathon" contains all 24 Rachmaninov Preludes and Prokofiev's Seventh and Eighth piano sonatas. Teaching Ilya Itin teaches as a guest instructor at the Juilliard School and Peabody Institute and is a visiting artist/professor at Musashino Academy of Music in Tokyo, Japan. He has also served on the faculty of the Graduate Program at CUNY, New York, and teaches in the summer at the Golandsky Institute at Princeton University. References External links Official Website Ilya Itin at Jonathan Wentworth Associates, LTD. Amazon List of Recordings WPRB Interview The Golandsky Institute Miami International Piano Festival Ilya Itin at Eventful Rochester Philharmonic Classical Concerts Israel Camerata Jerusalem Miami International Piano Festival Critical Review Living people 1967 births Russian classical pianists Prize-winners of the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition Moscow Conservatory alumni Cleveland International Piano Competition prize-winners Musicians from Yekaterinburg 21st-century classical pianists