Semyon Snitkovsky

Who was Semyon Snitkovsky?

Semyon Snitkovsky was born in Odessa, USSR on August 9, 1933. His formal music education began in 1940 at the famous music school named after P.S. Stolyarsky, class of violin. An ensuing hiatus, brought on by the World War II, is ended when Semen is accepted into the class of V. Z. Mordkovich, the outstanding violin pedagogue who was later to become a professor at the Odessa Conservatory. After three years of study, Semen performed his first solo concert and, in 1951, he began his education at the Odessa Conservatory again with Professor Mordkovich. The five years spent at the Conservatory were the years when Semen initiated his professional career with acknowledgement of his talent. In the early fifties, Snitkovsky was hired as a soloist with the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 1956, after his performance at the recital of the best graduates of Ukraine music colleges, Semen became a soloist of the Philharmonic and a teacher at the Lvov Conservatory.

In 1957 Semen was accepted to the Moscow Conservatory as a postgraduate, class of David Oistrakh.