Airat Rafailovich Ichmouratov is a Russian-born Canadian composer, conductor and klezmer clarinetist of Volga Tatar descent. He is a founding member and clarinetist of award-winning Montreal-based klezmer group Kleztory and invited professor at Laval University in Quebec, Canada.
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Kazan State Conservatory, from where Ichmouratov graduated in 1996.
Composer Airat Ichmouratov with Canadian cellist and conductor Yuli Turovsky and his wife, violinist Eleonora Turovsky, summer 2001
The klezmer ensemble Kleztory during their performance at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, July 2025.![Ichmouratov, Overture The Myth of Falcon, measures"}]],"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"Abbr","href":"./Template:Abbr"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"mm"},"2":{"wt":"measures"}},"i":0}}]}">mm 1-4, The first page of conductor's score demonstrates full-size orchestration](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Overture_The_Myth_of_Falcon_by_Airat_Ichmouratov.jpg/1280px-Overture_The_Myth_of_Falcon_by_Airat_Ichmouratov.jpg)
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Ichmouratov, Three Viola Romances, Op. 22, 3rd movement, bars 11-13. Example of 'Fate' motif
Ruins of Fort Longueuil, that inspired Ichmouratov's Symphony in A minor "On the Ruins of an Ancient Fort," painting by John Poad Drake
La Chasse-galerie by Henri Julien, 1906, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, The Folk story that inspired Ichmouratov Overture "La Chasse-Galerie" Op.70Listen
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About this person
Category
Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
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Born 1973 · age 53
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