Ilya Rashkovsky
Ilya Rashkovsky (born in Irkutsk, 17 November 1984) is a Russian pianist.He is a pupil of Vladimir Krainev at the Musikhochschule Hannover. At 17 Rashkovsky was second to Dong-Hyek Lim at the XXII Long-Thibaud Competition and subsequently won the XLVIII Premio de Jaén and the inaugural edition of the Hong Kong Competition. In 2007 he was awarded the XVI Queen Elisabeth Competition's 4th prize. In 2012 he was awarded 1st prize at the 8th Hamamatsu International Piano Competition.