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BIO : Born in Moscow, Masha Lankovsky grew up in New Zealand and Australia where she first began studying music. She continued her studies in the United States with Boris Roninson and went on to study at the Royal Academy of Music and at Indiana University in Bloomington, where she completed her Bachelors and Masters degrees in performance under the guidance of Nelli Shkolnikova. Masha Lankovsky earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the City University of New York in 2009. Based
in New York, Masha Lankovsky is an active freelance musician and a member
of the NeoLIT contemporary music ensemble. She has performed at
various international festivals including Schleswig Holstein in Germany,
Britten-Pears in England , and the American Conservatoire at Fontainebleau,
France. Highlights of the past season have included chamber collaborations
with the pianist Byron Schenkman and the composer David Amram. In the
spring of 2010 she will be featured as soloist in Prokofiev’s
Violin Concerto No. 1 with the Brooklyn Conservatory Community Orchestra. Masha
Lankovsky is a sought after teacher and has a deep commitment to violin
pedagogy. Her dissertation “The Pedagogy of Yuri Yankelevich and
the Moscow Violin School, including a translation of Yankelevich’s
'On the Initial Positioning of the Violinist'” provides the first
English translation of Yankelevich’s texts. She is presently working
on the English translation of Yankelevich’s book “Pedagogical
Heritage” and will be presenting on the Russian Violin School
at the American String Teacher’s Association National Conference
in Santa Clara in February, 2010. Masha Lankovsky is on the faculty of the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music where she also serves as Director of the Classical Division. She plays a violin made by Thomas Oliver Croen, 1989. |