Ilya Shterenberg
Lecturer, Clarinet

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"He possesses that miraculous gift of an innate musical sense…
…music seemed to flow toward the infinite, as if divinely ordained."
(William Furtwangler-"Post and Courier" Charleston, SC)

A native of Ukraine, Ilya Shterenberg has successfully combined a career as soloist, chamber music performer and orchestral musician. Hailed as a "clarinet god" by the press, Mr. Shterenberg has performed extensively abroad and in the United States. In addition to the standard clarinet repertoire with orchestra, his frequent solo performances have included such rarely heard clarinet concertos as those by Franz Krommer and Karol Kurpinsky as well as the American premiere of the Richard Strauss's Serenade for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra. Mr. Shterenberg's performances have been heard on National Public Radio stations throughout the country as well Chicago's WFMT nationwide classical music network.

Ilya Shterenberg began his music education at the Kosenko Music College in Zhitomir, city of his birth. There he performed as principal clarinetist with various orchestras and chamber ensembles. After his immigration to the United States in 1989, Mr. Shterenberg has performed as principal clarinetist with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago under the direction of Daniel Barenboim, George Solti and Pierre Boulez. He has also performed at such prestigious music festivals as Tanglewood, Graz (Austria) and Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) under the batons of Roger Norrington, Seiji Ozawa, Dennis Russell Davies, Herbert Blomstedt and others.

Mr. Shterenberg's principal teachers include Larry Combs, Stephen Girko, Ross Powell and Charles Neidich. 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.

Currently Mr. Shterenberg is in his fifth season as Principal Clarinetist of the San Antonio Symphony. He is also professor of Clarinet at the University of Texas San Antonio. Prior to this he was the Principal Clarinetist of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, SC and has served on the faculty of the College of Charleston. He has performed frequently as a recitalist and chamber music artist with the Cactus Pear Music Festival, the Olmos Ensemble, Colorado Music Festival, and the Piccolo Spoleto Festival - USA.

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