If you go
› What: Ilya Yakushev in Presidential Concert Series.› When: 7:30 p.m. today, Sept. 15.› Where: Lee University’s Pangle Hall, 340 N. Church St., Cleveland, Tenn.› Admission: $15 adults, $4 seniors and students.› Phone: 423-614-8343 (box office open 3-6 p.m. weekdays), 423-614-8240 (series information).› Website: www.leeuniversity.edu.
Russian pianist Ilya Yakushev, an audience favorite from his first Lee University appearance in 2011, returns tonight, Sept. 15, to kick of the 25th season of the Presidential Concert Series on the Cleveland, Tenn., campus.
The performance takes place in Pangle Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Yakushev won his first award at age 12, and many more have followed, including a 2005 win at the World Piano Competition in Cincinnati, Ohio.
In 2014, he became a member of the St. Petersburg Piano Quartet, had work published by British label Nimbus Records and was named “one of the very best young pianists before the public today” by American Record Guide.