Pianist Ivan Ilić took degrees in mathematics and music at the University of California Berkeley before moving to Paris in 2001. He then studied at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris, where he was awarded a Premier Prix. The City of Paris sponsored his first recording.
Ivan Ilić has released three CDs with Paraty: 24 Préludes by Claude Debussy (2008), 22 Chopin Studies by Leopold Godowsky (2012), and For Bunita Marcus by Morton Feldman (2015). His albums have consistently been among Paraty’s most successful and most widely disseminated.
In recent years Ilić’s approach has broadened in scope, as he searches for a way to reconcile his intellectual curiosity with his career as a soloist. In 2011 he acted in two French short films: Luc Plissonneau’s Les Mains and Benoît Maire’s Le Berger. He also began to write about music; recent articles have appeared on the websites of Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, and Music & Literature. Since 2014 he has co-produced several 5-hour radio series for Swiss Radio.
