Acting Principal Clarinet of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra (Canada), Principal Clarinet of the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra (Columbus, OH), and Principal Clarinet of the San Antonio Philharmonic (San Antonio, TX), Ilya Shterenberg balances a busy career as an orchestral musician, chamber music performer, and a soloist. Hailed by the press: “He possesses that miraculous gift of an innate musical sense...music seemed to flow toward the infinite, as if divinely ordained”, he is regularly featured as a soloist performing works by Mozart, Weber, Rossini, Debussy, and Strauss, as well as rarely heard clarinet concertos by Krommer and Kurpinsky, as well as the American premiere of Richard Strauss’s Serenade for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra.
He has been featured as Principal clarinetist with Baltimore, Cincinnati, and Seattle Symphonies, The Florida Orchestra, as well as The Houston Grand Opera, and has collaborated with some of the most notable conductors of our time, including Roger Norrington, Seiji Ozawa, Dennis Russell Davies, Herbert Blomstedt, Daniel Barenboim, George Solti, Pierre Boulez and others.
Away from the orchestras, Ilya is very active as chamber musician, festival performer, and educator. He is a member of the Olmos Ensemble, a Premier chamber music group in San Antonio, TX. He is the Principal Clarinetist of the Music In The Mountains Festival in Durango, CO. As an educator, he has been a faculty member of the College of Charleston, the University of Texas San Antonio, and UT Austin.
A native of Ukraine, Ilya began his music education at the Kosenko Music College, in Zhitomir, city of his birth. After his immigration to the United States in 1989, he received an Artist Certificate diploma from the Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, after which he did further study at DePaul University in Chicago. His principal teachers have included Larry Combs, Stephen Girko, and Charles Neidich.
Mr. Shterenberg’s performances have been heard on National Public Radio stations throughout the country as well as Chicago’s WFMT nationwide classical music network. He performs frequently as a recitalist and chamber music artist with Cactus Pear Music Festival and the North Shore Chamber Music Festival.
Ilya is a Buffet Group USA performing artist.
