Grubert Ilya Khaimovich (b. 13 May 1954, Riga) — violinist.

Ilya Grubert studied at the Emīls Dārziņš Music School in Riga. At the age of 14, he continued his studies in Moscow at the Central Music School affiliated with the Moscow State Conservatory, under Yuri Yankelevich and Zinaida Gilels. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1978 and completed postgraduate studies there in 1980 under Professor Leonid Kogan.

Laureate of numerous prestigious competitions:

All-Union Competition of Performing Musicians (Lviv, 1977, 1st Prize)

International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition (Helsinki, 1975, 2nd Prize)

Niccolò Paganini International Violin Competition (Genoa, 1977, 1st Prize)

6th International Tchaikovsky Competition (Moscow, 1978, 1st Prize)

In the 1980s Ilya Grubert emigrated from the USSR and has since resided in the Netherlands, where he is a professor at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague and an active concert soloist.

Grubert has performed extensively across the United States, Canada, Australia, and throughout Europe. He has appeared as a soloist with major orchestras under the baton of Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Maxim Shostakovich, Vernon Nelson, Mariss Jansons, Constantine Orbelian, Dmitry Yablonsky, Vassily Sinaisky, and Vladimir Ziva.

His extensive repertoire spans works from the 17th to the 20th centuries. His recordings include concertos by Paganini, Sibelius, Bruch, Elgar, Tchaikovsky, Myaskovsky, Karaev, Weinberg, Shostakovich, and Arutiunian, as well as violin compositions by Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev.

He performs on a 1740 violin made by Pietro Guarneri, which once belonged to Henryk Wieniawski.