Jumping in to conduct a series of Christmas concerts with the Elblandphilharmonie Sachsen to very favorable reviews, Ilya Ram was cited to have “conducted with care, placed great value on high-contrast, well-differentiated music-making, and precision.” 2019/20 saw Ilya as Guest Resident Conductor at the Theater Chemnitz and most recently he was a semi-finalist of the Guido Cantelli competition in Turin which led to an immediate invitation to assist the Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento a week later at the Biennale di Venezia. Ilya is a prize-winner of the 8th Central-German MDR conducting competition. He is also a recipient of several prestigious scholarships including the “Yotzrim” Scholarship for independent artists, AICF “Sharet” Scholarship, the DAAD Scholarship for his studies in Germany, and a two-time bursary student of the Dartington Music Festival. Ilya was amongst the four young conductors to be selected to participate in the first-ever Bayreuther Festspiele masterclass for conductors. Amongst the more prominent orchestras Ilya has conducted are the the Robert-Schumann Philharmonie, Dartington Festival Orchestra, the Gstaad Festival Orchestra, MDR Sinfonieorchester, Südwest Philharmonie Konstanz, Elbland Philharmonie Sachsen and the Brandenburger Symphoniker. Ilya is a graduate (Cum Laude) of the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel-Aviv in Orchestral Conducting and Musicology and of the Hochschule für Musik “Carl Maria von Weber” in Dresden with a M.Mus in Orchestral Conducting. currently he is taking part in the APT Program at the UdK Berlin.