Ilya Ram
(c) Katharina Dickopf
Israeli-American conductor Ilya Ram has been named the next Music Director of the Chattanooga Symphony & Opera, the fourth artistic leader in the organization’s 91-year history. He has also served as Music Director of the Akademische Philharmonie Heidelberg since the 23/24 season.
Ilya Ram was born on January 1991 in New-York. He began studying the piano at the age of 6. Ram graduated from high-school with excellence in the departments of music and philosophy after which he spent a year doing educational volunteer work in a developing town in Israel. He began studying conducting at the age of 19 with Maestro Guy Feder while continuing his volunteer work with the Israeli branch of Physicians for Human Rights. In 2011 he began his studies in the Buchmann Mehta School of Music in Maestro Yi-An Xu’s class. Later he studied in Dresden and Berlin.
