Ilja Scheps (born 1956) is a Russian pianist living in Germany and professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, Department Aachen.
In the meantime, he has been invited to give guest performances in the US, Australia, China, Israel, Italy, Malta, New Zealand, Spain, Hungary and Turkey.
[1] With the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the founding of the Russian Federation in 1992, Scheps moved to Germany, where he taught as a private lecturer at the Rostock University of Music and Theatre, at the Dortmund department of the Detmold University of Music and at the Akademie für Tonkunst in Darmstadt.
In 2003, he became professor of piano and chamber music at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, Aachen Department, where he rose to the position of director of the Aachen Department alongside Hans-Werner Huppertz and Claudia Kunz-Eisenlohr.
Since 2006, Scheps has headed the international jury of the "Prix amadéo de piano", from 2015 at the MozARTe International Piano Competition [de], together with his university colleague Andreas Frölich from Aachen, as well as the organisers' association "MozARTE e.V.