Ilya Rashkovskiy debuted with the Irkutsk Chamber Orchestra at the age of eight.
He studied from 1993 to 2000 at the Novosibirsk Special School of Music with Prof. M. Lebenzon, from 2000 to 2009 at the Musikhochschule Hannover with Prof. V. Krainev, and finally at the Ecole Normale Supérieure A. Cortot in Paris with Prof. M. Rybicki.
Thibaud in Paris, Queen Elisabeth in Brussels, A. Rubinstein in Tel Aviv, and the 1st Hong Kong International Piano Competition.
In 2015 he received the Jury Discretionary Award at the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition.
He recorded the Seasons and the Sonata in c-sharp minor by Tchaikovsky on the Naxos label in 2008, Fantasies by Mozart, Chopin, Liszt, and Scriabin on Alpha Omega Hong Kong in 2009, Chopin Complete Etudes on Victor Japan in 2013, Stravinsky, Giuseppe Andaloro, Ravel, Lutoslawski, Giovanni Sollima and Monika Leskovar on Alpha Omega in 2014, violin sonatas by Reynaldo Hahn, Shinuh Lee, and Gabriel Faure, with Ji-Yoon Park on DUX in 2014, the complete Scriabin piano sonatas on NAR in 2015, and works of Mussorgsky, Rachmaninov, and Tchaikovsky in 2016 for La Musica, France.