Lydia Mordkovitch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Lydia Mordkovitch

Russian-born British violinist

Date of Birth: 30-Apr-1944

Place of Birth: Saratov, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia

Date of Death: 09-Dec-2014

Profession: violinist, music pedagogue

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Lydia Mordkovitch

  • Lydia Mordkovitch (née Shtimerman; 30 April 1944 – 9 December 2014) was a Russian violinist.Lydia was born in Saratov, Russia, on 30 April 1944.
  • She returned with her parents to Kishinev after the war.
  • In 1960, she moved to Odessa, where she studied at the Stolyarsky School of Music until 1962.
  • She then moved to Moscow where she studied at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory under David Oistrakh, later serving as his assistant from 1968 to 1970.
  • During this period, she married and had a daughter, and won the National Young Musicians Competition in Kiev in 1967 and the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition in Paris in 1969.In 1970–73, she studied at the Institute of Arts.
  • She taught at the Israeli Academy of Music in Jerusalem in 1974–79, when she made her first appearance in the UK with the Hallé Orchestra.
  • She settled permanently in the UK in 1980.
  • Her marriage ended during this period.
  • Her United States debut was in 1982 with Georg Solti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.Mordkovitch signed a recording contract with Chandos in 1980, after the company RCA, with which she had previously had a contract, went bankrupt.
  • Her Chandos debut recording contained sonatas by composers such as Prokofiev, Schumann, and Richard Strauss.
  • She was featured in over 60 recordings for Chandos, including works of J.S.
  • Bach, Ami Maayani, Shostakovich and English composers such as Bax, Alwyn, Bliss, Howells, and John Veale.Her Chandos recording of the violin concertos of Shostakovich won a Gramophone Award in 1990.
  • She made numerous recordings with the conductor Neeme Järvi but plans to record the long-awaited Tchaikovsky Concerto were not realised.
  • Mordkovitch became a professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London in 1995 as a specialist in Russian music.

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