Vladimir Sokoloff 弗拉迪米尔·索科洛夫

Vladimir Sokoloff, (Dr. Vladimir Sokoloff), (1913 – 1997) was a pianist and accompanist on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music. In addition to his teaching work with the accompanying, piano and chamber music students, he was an active performer, collaborating with many of his era's great musicians, most notably Efrem Zimbalist.

Born in New York in 1913, Sokoloff entered the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia in 1929, studying with Abram Chasins, Harry Kaufman and Louis Bailly. He joined the faculty in 1936. In 1942, he took part in the founding of the New School in Philadelphia, (now the Esther Boyer School of Music at Temple University) with his colleagues Jascha Brodsky, Max Aronoff and Orlando Cole. From 1938 to 1950 he was pianist for the Philadelphia Orchestra. As a recital accompanist and pianist with a career of over 70 years, his repertoire spanned all instrumental and vocal genres and styles. Sokoloff collaborated with such artists as the violinists Efrem Zimbalist, (with whom he had a twenty-seven-year collaboration, accompanying recitals all over the world), Jaime Laredo, Toshia Eto, and Aaron Rosand; the violists William Primrose and Joseph di Pasquale; the cellists Gregor Piatigorsky and Emanuel Feuermann; flutistJulius Baker, William Kincaid, oboist Marcel Tabuteau as well as soprano Marcella Sembrich.

Vladimir Sokoloff's cousin was the composer Noel Sokoloff. He was Nephew of the conductor Nikolai Sokoloff. Another first cousin of his was the pianist Theodore Saidenberg. Sokoloff married pianist Eleanor Blum (Eleanor Sokoloff, who at 102 is still on the faculty of Curtis They performed as a duo until the birth of their daughters. Their daughters are Kathy Sokoloff, director of development at the Settlement Music School, and Laurie Sokoloff, principal piccolo player with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and professor at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. Vladimir Sokoloff was commonly referred to as “Billy”. He was awarded a doctorate by the Curtis Institute of music.. Dr. Sokoloff died in 1997 in Philadelphia, after a long illness.

摘自：<a href="<a href=" https:="" en.wikipedia.org="" wiki="" '="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir Sokoloff_(pianist)