" ... an exceptional violinist due to her temperament, refined technique, sensitivity and intuition when it comes to musical works..."

Yulia Iglinova Milshtein is Concertmaster of the Spanish Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra and Choir (RTVE).

Born in Russia, at the early age of 8 she took her first steps in the Yekaterinburg Philharmonic Hall under the baton of her teacher, Wolf Usminsky. She soon moved to Moscow to continue her studies at the Special School for Young Talents, with teachers Boris Belenky and Nadezda Beshkina, and a few years later she entered the prestigious Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow to study with the great maestro Eduard Grach.

In 1996, she won a prize at the A. Yampolsky International Violin Competition (Russia). During these years, she received lessons from great masters such as Nikolai Chumachenko, Zakhar Bron, and Yuri Volguin. From 1996 to 1998, she was assistant professor to her teacher Edouard Grach in the violin department at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow.

He frequently performs at the prestigious Bolshoi, Malyi and Rachmaninovsky concert halls, as well as at major Russian festivals such as Stars of Moscow and Russian Winter. During this period, he was also a member of the Russian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra.

In 1999, he settled in Spain, where he joined the RTVE Symphony Orchestra, of which he is currently concertmaster. In recent years, Yulia has also been very active as a solo violinist and in chamber music ensembles. She has toured and performed in the United States, Canada, Russia, Germany, Australia, South Korea, Japan, Poland, Moldova, Yugoslavia, Greece and the Baltic Republics, among others.

In Spain, he has performed in major concert halls as a soloist with numerous orchestras and in chamber ensembles, as well as at international music festivals such as Perelada, Música Sacra de Cuenca, and Música y Danza de Úbeda, among others.

He has also been very active in the United States as a soloist and chamber musician. From spring to summer, between 2013 and 2018, he complemented his activities in Spain with his important position in the United States as concertmaster of the New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra, where he has performed as a soloist and concertmaster during those seasons.

Also noteworthy is her collaboration with the Excelentia Foundation from 2007 to 2015, as concertmaster of its Santa Cecilia Classical Orchestra and as concertmaster-conductor of the European Ensemble. Since then, she has continued to perform occasionally as a soloist or guest concertmaster with this foundation.

She has made recordings for Russian and Spanish television and radio, Canal Clásico, Albany Records and others. She has collaborated with Spanish film composers, recording music for films by Alberto Iglesias, Zacarías de la Riva, and Federico Jusid.

She has also recorded the 2016 to 2018 seasons, as a teacher and member of the jury, of the award-winning TV2 Clásicos y Reverentes classical music programme (IRIS Award 2017). Her extensive repertoire ranges from Baroque to contemporary music, and she has premiered several works by contemporary composers, some of which are dedicated to her.

She currently combines her work as concertmaster of the OSCRTVE with projects for Radio Clásica, and also performs chamber music with the Magnacore Trio, of which she is a founding member.

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