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Strok Avsey (1876-1956)

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SurnameStrok
NameAvsey
Birth year1876
Birth placeDinaburg
Death year1956
Death placeTokyo
SexM

Strok (Strock) Avsey (1876, Dinaburg — 1956, Tokyo) — impresario.

Avsey Strok studied violin at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory but did not complete his studies. From 1908 to 1939, he worked in the Far East — in China, Japan, and the Philippines — as a concert agent.

He organised concert tours in the region for many outstanding artists, including Feodor Chaliapin, Jascha Heifetz, Joseph Szigeti, and Efrem Zimbalist, among others.

In 1939, he moved to the United States, where he served as a managing director of an orchestra, presumably in Boston, and continued his work as an impresario.

He died during a business trip to Japan.

He was the brother of Oskar Strock.