In great demand as a soloist, Ilya Gringolts devotes himself both to the great orchestral repertoire and to contemporary and little-visited works. He is also very interested in deepening historical performance practice. His programs include the virtuosic early repertoire of Paganini, Leclair and Locatelli. Earlier this year, Ilya Gringolts premiered his arrangement of Beethoven's Diabelli Variations.

It also launched new works by Peter Maxwell Davies, Christophe Bertrand, Bernhard Lang, Beat Furrer, and Michael Jarrell, and premieres by Augusta Read Thomas, Michael Jarrell, Christophe Bertrand, and Albert Schnelzer. In the summer of 2020, Ilya Gringolts and Ilan Volkov founded theI&I Foundation to promote contemporary music, which awards commissions to young composers. An initial series of short solo works was created last season, including works by Yu Kuwabara and Sky Maclachlan, which premiered at BBC Radio Scottish and the Accademia Chigiana. Together with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the violinist began the current season at the Lucerne Festival and also appeared as soloist atEnsemble Resonanz 's season-opening anniversary concert at the Elbphilharmonie. Further invitations have brought him to the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna RSO , the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Lahti Symphony Orchestra, the SWR Symphony Orchestra, and the Tonhalle Orchestra in his hometown of Zurich, among others.

Ilya Gringolts has performed with such renowned orchestras as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Filarmonica della Scala of Los Angeles, NHK Symphony Orchestra,Filarmonica orchestra of Israel, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Filarmonica della Scala Royal Stockholm, Filarmonica della Scala of St. Petersburg, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchestre of Berlin, and Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Some recent performances include projects with the Santa Cecilia Academy Orchestra,Filarmonica orchestra Helsinki, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Filarmonica della Scala in Warsaw, andOrchestre National des Pays de la Loire. Ilya Gringolts has recently conducted projects with theAustralian Chamber Orchestra, Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, and, in the 2021/22 season, Camerata Bern, Orchestra della Svizzeria Italiana, and Ensemble Resonanz. For his Diapason d'Or and Gramophone Editor's Choice award-winning recording of Locatelli's Il labirinto armonico (2021), Ilya Gringolts conducted the Finnish Baroque Orchestra from the podium. This recording was followed in the same year by the solo CD "Chaconne" with works by Bach, Pauset, Gerhard and Holliger, which received the Gramophone Editor's Choice Award. His extensive discography of award-winning CDs from Deutsche Grammophon, BIS and Hyperion also includes the critically acclaimed recording of Paganini's 24 Caprices for solo violin and the second part of his recording of Stravinsky's complete works for violin (2018), recorded with theOrquesta Sinfónica de Galicia with Dima Sloboden-iouk and awarded the Diapason d 'Or.

As first violinist of the Gringolts Quartet, Ilya Gringolts has enjoyed great success at the Salzburg Festival, Lucerne Festival, Edinburgh Festival, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Philharmonie in Luxembourg, Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Konzerthaus in Dortmund, and Teatro La Fenice in Venice. An acclaimed chamber musician, Ilya Gringolts regularly collaborates with the likes of James Boyd, Itamar Golan, Peter Laul, Aleksandar Madzar, Nicolas Altstaedt, Christian Poltera, David Kadouch, Antoine Tamestit and Jörg Widmann. After studying violin and composition in St. Petersburg with Tatiana Liberova and Zhanneta Metallidi, Ilya Gringolts attended the Juilliard School of Music where he studied with Itzhak Perlman. In 1998 he won the prestigious 'Paganini Prize' Competition, becoming the youngest winner in the competition's history. Earlier in his career he was also named BBC New Generation Artist. In addition to his position as professor of violin for the Zurich Academy of Arts, Ilya Gringolts is also a professor at the prestigious Accademia Chigiana in Siena. Ilya Gringolts plays a Stradivari violin (1718 "ex-Prové").

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