8/12/2019 Critical Acclaims Dimitri Illarionov

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Dimitri IllarionovGFA Tour 2003-2004

Critical Acclaims

Begeisterung für gezupfte KlängeDas JugendZupfOrchester NRW gastierte mit dem Gitarrensolisten Dimitri Illarionov im Forum

... The young Russian guitarist Dimitri Illarionov is on the onset of the worldwide prominence after winning the firstprice in GFA competition. In "The Dream of Little Fish" he displayed a firework of virtuosity – the filigree ofsounds rivaled the incredibly swift technique of fingers and ardent warmth of bursts of emotions. Only an encore

performance could satisfy the storms of applause from the audience.Diana Loos, Westdeutsche Zeitung (Germany), March 11th, 2003

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Graziles Saitenspiel (Stringplaying with Grace)Quartetto Colori and Dimitri Illarionov gave a guest performance in the Apostelkirche

...Dimitri Illarionov from Moscow showed the art of playing guitar at the highest level. The young guitarist wonrecently the most important guitar competition, The Guitar Foundation of America – GFA. In Gütersloh, he openedthe program with Mauro Giuliani’s "Grande Ouverture." Dramatic accents, oscillating arpeggios and melodicpassages: Dimitri Illarionov mastered all this with exceptional virtuosity and suppleness. One could think of listeningto the whole orchestra, so colorful and well arranged was this exceptional musician. His interpretation ofcompositions with romantic and folkloristic influences was as convincing as his play of the classical modern music. At the end, Quartetto Colori and Dimitri Illarionov played together two movements from Eduardo Angulo’s "Il

sogno del pescolino" (The Dream of Little Fish) where both showed the most precise and united ensemble.Enthusiastic applause with shouting bravo and two long encores completed the evening.

Constance Natosevic, Neue Westfälische Zeitung (Germany), March 20th, 2003

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"It was one of the most inspiring guitar performances I have ever heard."

Dusan Bogdanovic, guitarist and composerRemarks on Dimitri Illarionov's performance in Gdansk (Poland), 2001.

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Discovering New Horizons

…It was an inspiring musical performance of the artist for whom no technical obstacles exist… Today we can talk

about a truly new generation of young guitarists aspiring to overcome the “guitar stereotypes” and conquer newpinnacles of the guitar music. No doubt, Dimitri Illarionov is the musician of the kind. Lately, he has become one ofthe most brilliant and talented young Russian guitarists. His music has already thrilled professionals and guitar musicfans in many countries.

Guitarist, Russian Guitar Magazine, #1 2002

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Guitar's Moon Sound...

… A guitar soloing for the first time in the city of Irkutsk to the accompaniment of a symphonic orchestra was arefreshing and remarkable experience. Pleasantly melancholic, moon sounds of the guitar pervaded the souls fillingthe concert hall with an unusual, almost magic serenity. Liberated from the anxieties of our arduous days, listeners were deeply enchanted by the sounds of the Spanish composition "Fantasia para un Gentilhombre."

… Dimitri Illarionov is one of the best young Russian guitarists. Perfect strokes, noble timbre of sound, deep butself-controlled temperament – everything that creates an atmosphere when we feel we come in touch with thehighest art.

Zhanna Leonova, East-Siberian Pravda (Russia), February 14th, 2002