KSENIA MILAS
Teacher at Pavia Conservatoire, at the Music Academy in Florence and masterclasses

Ksenia Milas is a Russian violinist living in Italy for over 15 years. Currently she maintain an active concert schedule, performing in solo violin recitals and as soloist in concerts across Europe, Great Britain, Ireland, Asia and other countries all over the world.

From 2010 to 2023, sha has taught at the International Academy of Imola (Honorary Director the Maestro Vladimir Ashkenazi), to pass on the teaching, with passion, and the secrets of the violinistic techniques to her numerous students. In 2021 she gets back to teach in Florence and the following year is called from Fiesole Academy where she is still teaching.

In 2022, Ksenia becomes official partner of iClassical Academy, a web platform featuring classical music lessons for which she records  an exclusive collection of video lessons with the Six Sonatas by Ysaÿe.

In December 2021, she released her CD with Nicolò Paganini’s 24 Caprices, Op. 1, plus 4 unreleased Studies. It is recorded in a single session with Paganini’s violin “Sivori” in the violin room at Palazzo Tursi in Genoa, for Da Vinci Classics and the CD received acclaim with a 5-stars review from “Musica” and “Amadeus” magazines and the title of “Supersonic” by “Pizzicato”.

In the Spring 2023 her CD “Oskolki” is released by Sony Classical Italia with musics by Auerbach, Prokofiev, Piazzolla and Respighi played with Gianna Fratta at the piano.

In January 2022, Ksenia plays in the concert “AD MEMORIAM” dedicated to the heroes of the Dignity Revolution in Ukraine. The event, organized by the Ukraine Ministry of Culture and patronage by the Italian Embassy and the Italian Cultural Center, took place at the National Philharmonic of Ukraine with the Ukranian National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gianna Fratta.

For “La Musica Unisce” project, she was awarded of some prizes: the “International Good Practices Award” by News Remind and the Italian Office of the European Parliament; “Excellence Award” by the Evento Donna Association patronaged by the European Parliament, the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Lazio Region, and Rome Municipality; and the “Magna Grecia Award” in Bari, Italy.

In 2017, she records the Solo Violin Sonatas, Op. 27, by E. Ysaÿe for Anima Records, a project supported by the music critics Sandro Cappelletto and Tully Potter, who wrote the introduction. She is decatee of some compositions: the Swedish composer J.Östlund, dedicated her his composition “Paganini Fantasia, a new work dedicated to Ksenia Milas.”, January 2018; the Italian composer Stefano Delle Donne dedicated her “Fantasia Concertante” for two violins, which she performed for the first time with the violinist O. Semchuk in Brescia within the events for BGBS Culture Italian Capital 2023. In the same year, the Israeli composer Denis Shapovalov dedicated her the classical-rock concerto titled “”The letters gone with Rhine. Brahms&Clara”, premiered with the composer in Brescia and at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.
In 1999, the Russian violinist Saveliy Shalman wanted her in the production of the film-lessons “I will be a Violinist,” for which he handled the production and the direction. Ksenia cooperated on the project until 2007. 

At the age of 20, she was admitted to Maastricht Conservatory, where she graduated with honor in 2012 under the guidance of Maestro Boris Belkin, then she specialized at Saint Petersburg Conservatoire. Since child, she has attended masterclasses with internationally renowned teachers, including Salvatore Accardo, Eduard Grach, Sergei Kravchenko, Jan Repko, Zakhar Bron, Michaela Martin, Krzysztof Wegrzyn and others.

Still very young, she won various competitions: at 9 she won the first prize at the International Competition in Athens; at 11 she won the first edition of “New Names” Competition and the International Competition of the Youth Assembly of the Arts in Moscow; at 12 she was awarded the “High Virtuosity Prize” at the International Festival in Belarus; in 2006, she received the jury prize at the International “Tchaikovsky Homeland” Competition in Izhevsk, Russia. At the age of 8, she made her solo debut with the State Philharmonic Orchestra of St. Petersburg, performing in the Mirror Hall of the Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace. Kultura Magazine wrote: “She captivated the audience not only with her charisma and surprising virtuosity but also with her extraordinary presence and artistic maturity.”

Ksenia started playing the violin at the age of 4 in Volgograd (Russia) in 1993 and the following year, she was admitted to the Special School of Music for talented pupils at “Rimsky-Korsakov” Conservatory in St. Petersburg, in Maestro Savely Shalman’s class.

She has performed as a soloist with various orchestra conductors, including Vasily  Petrenko (Russia-Norway), Lit Gregory (USA), Darrell Ang (Singapore), Anatoliy Ribalko (Russia), Ronald Masin (Germany), Marija Ramljak (Croatia), and the Italian Marco Boni, Lorenzo Passerini, Giancarlo De Lorenzo, Pietro Borgonovo, Gianna Fratta, Gianluca Marciano, and others. She collaborates with numerous musicians, including Bruno Canino, Rudolf Koelman, Giovanni Puddu, Orfeo Mandozzi, Antonello Farulli, Leonid Gorokhov, Denis Shapovalov, Oleksandr Semchuk, Giovanni Gnocchi, Alberto Nosè, Anna Serova.

Ksenia Milas plays an 1840 Auguste Sebastien Philippe Bernardel “père” violin and Giovanni Lucchi’s bow called “Marte”.