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Antopolsky Yevgeny Pavlovich (1894-1968)

Personal data
SurnameAntopolsky
NameYevgeny
PatronymPavlovich
Birth year1894
Birth month7
Birth day15
Birth placePinsk
Death year1968
Death month1
Death day15
Death placeRiga
SexM

Antopolsky Yevgeny Pavlovich (15 July 1894, Pinsk, Belarus – 15 January 1968, Riga)

Violinist, Educator

Education and Early Career

  • Studied in Germany.
  • 1923 – Returned to Russia.
  • 1927–1929 – Soloist at the Dnipropetrovsk Philharmonic (Ukraine).
  • 1927 – Toured in Shanghai, China.

Professional Career

  • 1929 – Moved to Moscow.
  • 1930 – Moved to Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg).
  • 1937 – Relocated to Alma-Ata (now Almaty, Kazakhstan).
  • 1937–1939 – Led the string quartet of the Kazakh State Philharmonic.
  • 1939–1946 (April) – Violin instructor, and from 1944, acting professor at the Kazakh State Conservatory.
  • Summer 1946 – Moved to Riga, became a soloist at the Latvian SSR Philharmonic.
  • From 1948 – Educator and head of the violin department at the Jāzeps Mediņš Music College.
  • 1951–1954 – Orchestra musician at the State Theatre of Musical Comedy.
  • 1954–1958 – Orchestra musician at the Riga Russian Drama Theatre.

Family Connection

  • Nephew of O. D. Strok.