Ilva Eigus April 2025

 The Swiss-Latvian violinist Ilva Eigus, born in 2007, is an exceptional talent. She receives her first fillin lessons at the age of three from Liana Tretiakova, who then teaches Ilva for 12 years at the Zakhar Bron School of Music in Zurich. Her current mentor is Professor Marc Bouchkov, with whom Ilva studies at the pre-College of the Royal Conservatory of Liège in Belgium. She receives further musical suggestions from Zahkar Bron, Ingolf Turban, Sergej Krylov, Priya Mitchell, Janine Jansen, Sadao Harada, Marie Chilemme, Nobuko Imai and Augustin Dumay. Ilva is a scholarship holder of the Verbier Festival Academy, the Seiji Ozawa Academy, the Academy of Music in Liechtenstein and the IMS Prussia Cove, England. In 2019-2020, Ilva is supported by our Pierino Ambrosoli Foundation.
At the age of eight, Ilva makes her debut as a soloist with an orchestra and then performes concerts with important orchestras such as the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the Winterthur Music College, the Moscow Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic Prague and the Constance Philharmonic Constance. Ilva is invited to perform in concert halls such as the Grosse Tonhalle Zurich, the Victoria Hall in Geneva, the Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow and the Mozarteum Salzburg as well as at festivals such as Verbier, Gstaad, Enjoy Jazz Mannheim, Odessa Classics and Festival de Musique de Menton.
She likes to deal with contemporary music and has already premiered works by Daniel Schnyder, Nik Baertsch and Samy Moussa.
Ilva is multiple prize winner of the Swiss Youth Music Competition and winner of numerous awards in international competitions. Her recent successes include first prizes at the Arthur Grumiaux Competition (2024) and Grunewald Competition Berlin (2024) as well as the Rotary Prize of the Verbier Festival (2023).
Ilva's playing is characterized by precise intonation, depth and artistic maturity. She plays an Omobono Stradivari from 1707, a generous loan from the Habisreutinger-Huggler-Coray Foundation.
In 2023, Ilva becomes ambassador of the Fondation ART-THERAPIE, whose goal is to promote art therapy programs for young people in Switzerland. In her spare time, she likes to work with photography.