Ilan Volkov

Ilan Volkov (Hebrew אילן וולקוב; born September 8, 1976 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an Israeli conductor.

Life and education

The son of concert pianist Alexander Volkov and the historian Shulamit Volkov has already received as a child violin training and then studied violin with Chaim Taub, director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, piano with his father and composition with Abel Ehrlich. From 1991 to 1993 he studied at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem conducting with Mendi Rodan and then attended the Royal Academy of Music in London. Ilan Volkov is married to Israeli pianist, singer and composer Maya Dunietz.

Career

In 1995 he was Young Conductor in Association to the Northern Sinfonia, 1997 Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic Youth Orchestra. 1999 appointed him to be his assistant Seiji Ozawa at the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

In 2003 he followed Vänskä became the youngest chief conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in its history after. In 2004 he was honored by the Royal Philharmonic Society as Young Musician of the Year.

Besides this activity, Volkov has appeared as guest conductor with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and the National Symphony Orchestra Washington. He worked with soloists such as Daniel Barenboim, Mstislav Rostropovich, Emanuel Ax, Viktoria Mullova, Heinrich Schiff, Thomas Zehetmair, Christian Tetzlaff and Stephen Kovacevich.

In San Francisco Volkov conducted Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin in 2004, at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera 2006 Britten's A Midsummer Night 's Dream. In Tel Aviv, he is involved in the project Levontin 7, the combination of classical music with jazz, rock and electronic music dedicated to.

In 2011 he joined the successor of Rumon Gamba as music director and principal conductor of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra.