Ilja Aksionov

Born in 1996, the Lithuanian tenor Ilya Aksionov rose to prominence as a boy soprano, performing the title character in Rachel Portman’s The Little Prince and the soloist in Leonard Bernstein’s Mass. He later studied with Virgilijus Noreika at the Vilnius Academy of Music and Theatre, winning the Kaunas Sonorum competition in 2015. In 2017, he transferred to the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf, Germany, where he studied under Konrad Jarnot. He has taken master classes with Dame Sarah Connolly, Anne le Bozec, Hans Eijsackers, and Christianne Stotijn. Aksionov has appeared at the Ettlingen Festival as Alfred in Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus and Ramiro in Rossini’s La cenerentola. He has performed Orphée in Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice in Enschede and appeared in Peter Eötvös’s Tri sestry at Theater Hagen in 2023. Aksionov was awarded a special prize for his lieder performances at the ’s-Hertogenbosch Competition in 2021.

July 2023