27 March marks the 77th birthday of the Russian-born violinist and pedagogue Dora Schwarzberg! Born in Tashkent in modern-day Uzbekistan in 1946, Schwarzberg was accepted into

Soviet-Jewish violinist Nelli Shkolnikova was born on this day in 1928. A student of Lillia Kossodo and Yuri Yankelevich, she served on faculty at the Gnessin State Musical College, the Victorian

Russian violin virtuoso Nelli Shkolnikova died on this day in 2010, aged 81. A student of Lillia Kossodo and Yuri Yankelevich, Ms Shkolnikova was a former

A student of Leopold Auer, Maestro Yankelevich served a long term Professorship at the Moscow Conservatory – his famed students including Boris Belkin, Dora Schwarzberg,