Ilia Korol (Violin) is from Kiev. He studied the violin at the Moscow University of Music with Abraham Stern and Marina Iashvili and has lived in Austria since 1997. He became an Austrian citizen in 2001. He played with Musica Antiqua Köln and is the leader of the Bach Ensembles of Joshua Rifkin and of the Spanish baroque orchestra RCOC; he is moreover a member of the Ars Antiqua Austria and of the Clemencic Consort. Ilia Korol has made numerous CD recordings. Since 2008, Ilia Korol has been adjunct professor in the faculty of Early Music at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg.