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Rosina Lhevinne

Rosina Lhevinne was born in Kiev, Russia. She began her piano studies with a local teacher and later studied with a talented student from the Moscow Imperial Conservatory, Josef Lhevinne. Several years later she was admitted to the Conservatory and in 1898, she won the Gold Medal in piano. After her graduation she married Josef Lhevinne and in 1919 they immigrated to the United States and settled in New York. When her husband died in 1944, Rosina Lhevinne took on his students at the Juilliard School in New York; she continued to teach there until her death in 1976.

Madame Lhevinne taught many talented students whose names are known to us today. Her students include James Levine, Music Director of the Metropolitan Opera and the Boston Symphony, John Williams, composer and conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, pianists Van Cliburn, John Browning, Olegna Fuschi,Tong-Il Han, Martin Canin, Daniel Pollack, Misha Dichter, Jeaneanne Dowis, Jeffrey Siegel, Leonidas Lipovetsky, Gerson Yessin, and many others. Van Cliburn became an instant celebrity after becoming the first American to win the Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958 at the height of the Cold War.

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