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Moses Michail Milner (Melnikoff)
… Ukraine. He sang with famous cantors in Kiev, later studying music in Kiev and in St. Petersburg, where he participated in the founding of the …
Jacob Bachman
… born in 1846 in Berdichev (today Ukraine). As a child he studied in a Yeshiva. He began his music studies in Moshe Pasternak’s choir at the local synagogue. … When he was eighteen, Bachmann went to study at the St. Petersburg Conservatory under Anton Rubinstein, where he …
Boris Levenson
… Born in Bessarbia. Studied and worked as a conductor in St. Petersburg , settling in the U.S. in 1921. As a …
Jascha Nemtsov
… was born in Magadan (Siberia) in 1963 and grew up in Saint Petersburg where he graduated from a special music school … continued his musical education at the Saint Petersburg State Conservatory where he graduated with a concert diploma, with distinction. He lives in Berlin (Germany). He has recorded …
Moses Pergament
… Born in Helsinki, Finland. Studied in St. Petersburg and Berlin before settling in Stockholm, …
Ephraim Skliar
… Belarus, and moved to Slutsk at an early age. He studied at the Warsaw Conservatory from 1890, and later at the St. Petersburg Conservatory under Rimsky-Korsakov. After …
Alexander Weprik
… Born in Balta (today Ukraine), and studied at conservatories in Leipzig, St. Petersburg, and Moscow. Later taught at the Moscow …
Joel Engel
… . … Composer, arranger, music editor, a member of the St. Petersburg School of Jewish composers, and one of the …
Solomon Rosowsky
… , was born in Riga in 1878. After completing his first degree in Law at the University of Kiev , Rosowsky went on to study music at the St. Petersburg Imperial Conservatory under teachers …
The Modern Renaissance of Jewish Music: Events and Figures, Eastern Europe and America
… Includes biographies, and complete list of publications of the Society for Jewish folk music in St. Petersburg (lists of works, of Joel Engel , Joseph …