Nelli Shkolnikova, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Nelli Shkolnikova

Russian musician

Date of Birth: 08-Jul-1928

Place of Birth: Zolotonosha, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 02-Feb-2010

Profession: music pedagogue

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Nelli Shkolnikova

  • Nelli Efimovna Shkolnikova (8 July 1928 – 2 February 2010) was a Russian Jewish classical violinist who spent many years teaching in Australia and the United States. She was born in the Ukrainian village of Zolotonosha.
  • At the age of three, she moved with her family to Moscow, and soon displayed aptitude for the violin.
  • At the age of five she entered the Moscow Conservatory, where she studied with Lillia Kossodo and Yuri Yankelevich.
  • She played her first concerto at age eight.
  • She won the 1953 Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition in Paris when she was 25.
  • She then embarked on an international performing career, as well as teaching.
  • She appeared in concert in the then Soviet Union, Europe, USA, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
  • She became a faculty member at the Gnessin Institute of Music in Moscow.Between 1970 and 1982, she was barred from leaving the Soviet Union.
  • When she was finally allowed to leave, she defected to the West in Berlin on 26 November 1982.
  • She settled in Melbourne, Australia, where she taught at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), an offer made to her after meeting the conductor John Hopkins in Germany.
  • She became the Victorian Arts Centre’s first Artist-in-Residence.
  • In 1987, on the recommendation of Isaac Stern, she was invited to join the faculty of Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music as professor of violin.
  • She later returned to her post at the VCA in Melbourne. She produced a great number of recordings in the Soviet Union, although few of them have been available outside Russia.
  • She attracted praise for her recordings of the Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn violin concertos (1959, 1973; under Kirill Kondrashin and Gennady Rozhdestvensky respectively), and some shorter pieces by Khachaturian, Paganini and Ysaÿe (recorded 26 June 1953, shortly after winning the Long-Thibaud Competition).Nelli Shkolnikova died in Melbourne, following a long battle with cancer, on 2 February 2010.

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