He took his first lessons in horn with the Prof. Avni Dajko at the Artistic High School of Music “Jordan Misja” in Tirana, and then with Prof. Andrea Canaj at the University of Arts in Tirana where he finished studies with maximum assessments. Also he took lessons with other well-known pedagogues such as: Mike Svoboda – Austria, Markus Burghaier – Germany, Uwe Diekersen – Germany, Vangelis Scuras – Greece, Guido Corti – Italy, Robin O’Brain – U.K, etc. He is quite active as an artist interpreter part of serveral ensembles, part of orchestras, holding lessons for the young generation, and also as playing and collaborating with Albanian and foreing artists in: Italy, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Kosovo. His goal as an artist is to enrich the Albanian and international music repertoire by inspiring composers. Many composersers dedicated pieces for him: Enis Mullaj – Under dhe Monlight, Alan Holley – The Glieve Glows, Alan Holley – Red Harmony, Andrian Petrout – Vue de Laigle etc. Also his aim is to create the necessary infrastructure for the young artists and helping them on creating new bridges of collaboration and enriching a unffiied method of studying and interpretation. Ilir Kodhima is also a organizer of the International Albanian Brass Festival since 2016, bringing in Albania many famous artsits from all over the world like: Alan Holley – Australia, Paul Goodchild – Austria , Arkady Shilkloper – Russia. Dr.Brent Shires – USA, Dr.Greg Jones – USA, Gergely Sugar – Austria etc. He is a member of many ensembles like: Albanian Brass Quintet, Albanian National Brass, “Cesk Zadeja” Wood Wind Quitet etc. From 2008-2009 he was part of the National Radio Television Orchestra as third horn, from 2009 – 2021 as the Principal horn at the National Opera and Ballet in Tirana, and then 2021 he is a Pedagogue at the University of Arts in Tirana (Albania) and Prishtina (Kosovo).