Summer Concerts at St. John Cantius
- St. John Cantius Church
- Jun 20
- 3 min read
Please join us for three special piano and organ concerts by Ilya Ivanov, Corrado Cavalli, and Esther Nyberg June - August in the Parish Hall.
About the Artists
Ilya is a professional pianist, teacher, and composer with 25 years of piano experience. He has worked with many different symphony orchestras and conductors, and has played recitals in Kazakhstan, Russia, Austria, and the U.S.
Ilya graduated from Novosibirsk State Conservatory in 2016, where he completed both Bachelor and Master’s degrees in Piano Performance. During this period of study, he won several international competitions. He was a member of the Cultural Olympiad in Sochi (2014) and a member of the Russian Union of Composers. After arriving in the U.S., Ilya continued his education, completing a doctorate in piano performance at Texas Tech University in 2021.
As a composer, Ilya saw his first string quartet performed in 2018 in the great hall of the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Society.
Ilya has taught in music schools and universities in many interesting places from central Kazakhstan to the polar regions of northern Siberia. He moved to the U.S. in 2020 and is currently studying at the University of Houston, where he is preparing the Artist Diploma, as part of a special program designed for pianists specializing in concert performing. He brings to the International Music Academy considerable experience teaching piano to students of all ages and levels.
Dr. Corrado Cavalli is a native of Turin, Italy and has been serving as the organist of St. John Cantius Church in Chicago since June 2015. He has earned a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Illinois and two Master's Degrees (one in Organ and one in Choral Conducting and Choral Composition) from the National Conservatory Giuseppe Verdi in Turin.
He regularly in many international festivals, cathedrals, and concert halls across Europe and the USA.
He has recorded for various record labels such as Biretta Books, De Montfort, AimHigher, Sony Classical, Elegia Records, and ElleDiCi. Additionally, he has published works for Biretta Books in Chicago and the Italian edition, "Armeiln Musica."
Esther Nyberg has performed at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage, Chicago Cultural Center’s Preston Bradley Hall, as well as in Italy at the Giovanni Arvedi Auditorium and in Salzburg at the Mozarteum’s Wiener Saal.
As a concerto soloist, she has appeared with the Chicago College of Performing Arts Symphony, the Skokie Valley Symphony Orchestra, and Portugal’s Orquestra de Camara de Cascais e Oeiras. She has participated in several summer music programs, including the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria, where she received the Outstanding Lieder Collaborative Pianist Award, and has performed in solo and collaborative masterclasses conducted by Martin Katz, Ingrid Fliter, Peter Frankl, Bruno Canino, and Boris Berman, among others.
A native of Chicago, Ms. Nyberg holds a Bachelor of Music degree from The Catholic University of America and a Master of Music degree from Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts. She is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at James Madison University under a full teaching assistant-ship. Her teachers include Ivo Kaltchev, Ludmila Lazar, and Gabriel Dobner.
With her many accomplishments and noteworthy talent, we are honored to host Ms. Nyberg for many to enjoy the delightful sounds of Bach, Brahms and Beethoven.
There will be an opportunity to make a freewill offering to support our renowned Sacred Music program.
