Photo by Devyn Glista

Violinist Evin Blomberg and cellist Ilya Finkelshteyn return to the Wiedemann Hill Mansion for an evening of music for strings.

DETAILS

Tickets: $35 (plus service fee)
7:30pm Performance
8:30pm Private reception with the artists

ARTISTS

Evin Blomberg, violin
Ilya Finkelshteyn, cello

PROGRAM

Program details will be announced by the artists during the performance.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Violinist Evin Blomberg currently plays in the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and is the Founder & CEO of the Soli Music Society. Evin studied with Pinchas Zukerman at the Manhattan School of Music in New York where she earned a Master of Music degree, and before that studied with Robert Lipsett at The Colburn School Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles where she earned both a Bachelor of Music degree and Artist Diploma. Recently, Evin won the Bronze Award at the 2022 Singapore International Music Competition, a Laureate at the 2021 Chicago Violin Competition, and was a "Next Up" Alumni Grant winner in 2021 and 2022 in a proposal competition held by The Colburn School.

In 2023, Evin was selected as a finalist for the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center Upstander Awards and also received a Gold President’s Volunteer Service Award for her arts advocacy and work around the community with the Soli Music Society. Evin is passionate about using her voice for positive change through leadership in the community, and is a recent graduate of the YWCA Rising Star Equity Leadership Program and The Wharton School Online Leadership and Management Certificate Program. In 2024, Evin was an award recipient at the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce Next Generation Leadership Awards in the Arts, Entertainment & Hospitality category.

Evin currently plays on a 1772 Joseph Gagliano violin from Naples, Italy.

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Ilya Finkelshteyn is Principal Cello of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Pops, and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Praised by the Washington Post as a "complete master of his instrument," he has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. Ilya was previously Principal Cello of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and prior to that played in the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra for five seasons. Ilya started his education at the Special Music School at the St. Petersburg Conservatory under the tutelage of Sergei Chernyadiev. After immigrating to the United States, Ilya studied with Tanya Remenikova at the University of Minnesota School of Music and then with Harvey Shapiro at The Juilliard School in New York City. Since 2004, Ilya has also been Principal Cello of the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center in New York City (formerly known as the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra).

Prize-winner of such competitions as the Brahms International Competition, Concertino Praga, Russian Cello Competition, the WAMSO International Competition, the Aspen Concerto Competition and the Chautauqua Concerto Competition, Ilya Finkelshteyn has appeared as a soloist with Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra and many other world-class orchestras including the National Repertory Orchestra. Ilya frequently gives masterclasses and teaches and various schools and festivals across the country.

Ilya plays on a 1730 Domenico Montagnana cello courtesy of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.