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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.

Paganini 24 caprices pdf

Paganini 24 caprices pdf

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Ilya Gringolts was winner of the International Violin Competition “Premio Paganini”, he was awarded two special prizes for the youngest ever competitor.

He received outstanding reviews for his recording of Paganini's 24 Caprices for solo violin.

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