Gennady

Freiburg im Breisgau, Deutschland

Gennady Ilin (English transcription “Ilyin”) was born on October 18th, 1961 in Kursk (Russia) and studied composition at Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg. As a 6th grader, he began to play in a few bands with his older friends, sometimes as a keyboard player, other times as a drummer. After finishing school, Gennady studied to be a pianist and a piano teacher at the Kursk Music College for four years. His musical tastes were formed exactly in the 1970s. Although foreign music was not widely available in the USSR, Gennady managed to get hold of it and listen to the Beatles, Deep Purple, ELP, Led Zeppelin, Yes, Queen, Genesis, etc. A band with the name “Little Tragedies” had its first official show on August 6, 1994, in Kursk. After graduating from the Conservatory at the end of 1994, Gennady Ilin moved to Germany. Since then “Little Tragedies” has functioned over a distance, but quite fruitfully nevertheless.