Ksenia Milas

Ksenia Milas is a Russian violinist who has been living in Italy for more than 10 years, and who has a constant performing activity in solo violin recitals and in concerts as a soloist with chamber ensembles and orchestras in Italy, Russia and all over the world.

She works with various orchestra conductors and collaborates with several musicians in chamber ensembles.

Since 2010, she teaches at the International Academy in Imola and in 2020 she started teaching at the Fiesole Music School, where she passionately passes down the secrets of the Russian violin school’s technique to her numerous students.
In 2017 she recorded the six Sonatas for Solo Violin Op. 27 by Eugene Ysaÿe for Anima Record, a project supported by music critics Sandro Cappelletto and Tully Potter, who have written the CD booklet. In September 2020, at ‘Palazzo Tursi’ in Genoa, she records Paganini’s 24 Caprices op. 1 plus the 4 Studies, recently discovered by Prof. Danilo Prefumo, on the violin “Sivori”, belonged to Paganini. In 2021 she becomes official partner of the iClassical Academy recording a collection of video-lessons on the Six Sonatas by Ysaÿe, uploaded on the Musical Jewel Section.

After hearing her play, the Swedish composer Jonathan Östlund dedicated her a composition written in January 2018, “Paganini Fantasia, a new work dedicated to Ksenia Milas”, and from 1999 to 2007 she collaborated with the violinist Saveliy Shalman for the production of the movie lessons “I’ll be a violinist”.
She was admitted to the Maastricht Conservatoire at the age of 20 and graduated with honors in 2012 with M° Boris Belkin but, since she was a child, she has been attending masterclasses and advanced training lessons with internationally renowned Maestros.

Ksenia started winning competitions at an early age: she was only 9 years old when she won the International Violin Competition of Athens; at the age of 11 she won the first edition of the Competition “New Names” and the International Competition of the Youth Arts Assembly of Moscow; she was 12 when she was awarded the “High Virtuosity Prize” at Belarus International Festival; in 2006 she was conferred the Jury Prize at the International Competition “Tchaikovsky” of Izhevsk, Russia. At the age of 8, Ksenia debuted as a soloist with the State Philharmonic Orchestra of St. Petersburg. Kultura Magazine wrote: “Ksenia has enchanted the public not only for her charisma and astonishing virtuosity but also for her extraordinary talent and artistic sensibility.”

She started playing the violin when she was only 4 years old at the Music School of Volgograd (Russia); the following year she entered the “Rimsky-Korsakov” Conservatoire of Saint Petersburg where she was welcomed in the classes for talented pupils guided by the Maestro Savely Shalman.