Gwendolyn Koldofsky (née Williams , Eng. Gwendolyn Williams Koldofsky ; November 1, 1906 , , Ontario - November 12, 1998 , Santa Barbara ) is an American pianist and music teacher of Canadian origin.
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Biography
She studied piano in Toronto with Viggo Kiel , then in London with Tobias Mattei and Harold Craxton and in Paris with Marguerite Asselman . In 1943, she married the violinist Adolf Koldofsky and left Toronto in 1944, first moving to Vancouver , and in 1945 to Los Angeles , where from 1946 to 1990 she taught piano accompaniment at the University of Southern California .
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As a pianist-accompanist, Gwendolyn Koldofsky went down in history as the last accompanist of Lotty Leman (in 1951 ). Coldofsky also performed with such outstanding singers as Marilyn Horn , Sally Terry , Hermann Prey and others.