Sharing the Music: A Conversation with Ilya Yakushev

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Credit Leora Zeitlin

Pianist Ilya Yakushev in the KRWG studio.

Pianist Ilya Yakushev maintains a packed schedule of concerts, and

wherever he goes and whatever he plays, his goal is to give the audience the best music he can. “I love sharing what I do with people who come to my concerts,” he says, and the reviews he’s been receiving indicate the audience loves it as well. He was in Las Cruces for a pair of concerts with the Las Cruces Symphony Orchestra, and he came to the KRWG studios to talk with Intermezzo host Leora Zeitlin about two youthful concertos by Prokofiev and Mendelssohn, his own teachers and background, and more.