From the age of five, Ilya Rashkovskiy (Irkutsk, Russia) studied the piano and at the age of six he started to compose. He gave his first concert with orchestra at the age of eight. After studying at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater with Vladimir Krainev, since October 2009 he continues his education in Paris at l’Ecole normale supérieure de musique with Marian Rybicki.

Winner of the Vladimir Krainev International Pianists Competition (1998), the Valsesia-Musica (2004), Jaen and Hong Kong International Competitions (2005), and the Hamamatsu International Competition (2012), he is also a laureate of the 2001 Long-Thibaud Competition (2nd Prize), the 2010 Vianna da Motta Competition (2nd prize) and the 2011 Artur Rubinstein Competition (3rd Prize).

Ilya Rashkovskiy has performed in Europe, Japan, and Russia, including the Bolshoy Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, the Philharmonie Essen and the Philharmonie Cologne, the Paris Théâtre du Châtelet and Salle Pleyel, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, and Amsterdam Concertgebouw. He has collaborated as a soloist with the Russian State Symphony, the Kiev national Philharmonic, the Gulbenkian Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Radio France, the Czech National Symphony, and the New Japan Symphony. He has been invited to the Festival de La Roque d’Anthéron and the Chopin Festival at Duszniki Zdroj in Poland.

He recorded the Seasons and Sonata in c-sharp minor by Tchaikovsky with Naxos (2008) as well as Fantasies (Mozart, Chopin, Liszt and Scriabin) on Alpha Omega Hong Kong (2009).