Too many to name, but some influences include:
M. Kopelman, all of my past teachers, Oistrakh, Heifetz, Milstein, Kreisler, Szigeti, Stern, Rubinstein, Horowitz, Gould, Perahia, Richter, Guarneri Quartet, Borodin Quartet, Amadeus Quartet, Casals, Toscanini, C. Kleiber, Celibidache, Bernstein, Mravinsky, Franco Corelli, Pavarotti, Chaliapin, Renee Fleming, Callas, Lemeshev, Domingo, Fischer-Discau, Quasthoff, Bjorling, Caruso, and many, many others.
Favorite composers:
Bach, Beethoven, Haydn, Schoenberg, Bartok, Sibelius.
Sounds Like
"The Russian Ilya Dobrovitsky, now living in the USA, played the Tchaikowsky Meditation, Op. 42, with a warm sound that could melt ice."
VASTERVICK, SWEDEN 2001----------------------------------------------------------------------
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"The other Concerto Competition winner, Ilya Dobrovitsky, likewise exemplifies the extent to which Prep students are driven to excel."
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Hi Ilya, how've you been? I enjoyed your Prokofiev Quintet recording. I played that at Yale when I was a student there. Are you ever going to come over to the darkside and rejoin FB? Nate