Daisy Fowler Kennedy (16 January 1893 – 30 July 1981) was an Australian-born concert

violin The violin, sometimes known as a '' fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone ( string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument ( soprano) in the family in regu ...

ist. She was born in Burra-Burra, 160 km north of

Adelaide Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The dem ...

, to parents of Scottish and Irish descent.A. Eaglefield-Hull (Ed.), ''A Dictionary of Modern Music and Musicians'' (Dent, London & Toronto 1924), 267. Her father, Joseph A. Kennedy, was headmaster of Glenelg Primary School and president of the South Australian Public School Teachers' Union. For three years, she was Elder scholar at the Adelaide Conservatory under Mrs. Alderman and Hermann Heinicke. She was a private pupil of

Otakar Ševčík Otakar Ševčík (22 March 185218 January 1934) was a Czech violinist and influential teacher. He was known as a soloist and an ensemble player, including his occasional performances with Eugène Ysaÿe. Biography Ševčík was born in Horaž ...

in Vienna for a year, and then studied for two years in the Meister-Schule there. She appeared in London in 1911 and toured widely in Europe and in the United States, Australia and New Zealand. On 15 April 1914, she married the Russian pianist Benno Moiseiwitsch; their daughter, the theatre designer

Tanya Moiseiwitsch Tatiana Benita Moiseiwitsch, (3 December 1914 – 19 February 2003) was an English theatre designer. Born in London, the daughter of Daisy Kennedy, an Australian concert violinist and Benno Moiseiwitsch, a Russian/Ukrainian-born classical pianis ...

was born in December the same year. They had a second daughter, Sandra. After divorcing Moiseiwitsch, she married the English playwright and poet John Drinkwater. They had a daughter, Penny Drinkwater, who went on to become a wine writer and member of the circle of wine writers. She was a cousin of cellist Lauri Kennedy,Peter Campbell
'Kennedy, Irvine Robert Laurie (Lauri) (1896–1980)'
Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 17, Melbourne University Press, pp 617-618. and thus also related to Lauri's son John Kennedy, another cellist, and grandson, the violinist

Nigel Kennedy Nigel Kennedy (born 28 December 1956) is an English violinist and violist. His early career was primarily spent performing classical music, and he has since expanded into jazz, klezmer, and other music genres. Early life and background Kenn ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kennedy, Daisy 1893 births 1981 deaths 20th-century Australian musicians 20th-century classical violinists 20th-century women musicians Australian classical violinists People from Burra, South Australia Women classical violinists Australian emigrants to England Australian expatriates in England