Roza Eidus (
Russian: Роза Эйдус; 7 November 1930 – 6 January 2018) was a Russian
pianist.
Biography
Roza Eidus was born in
Kiev
Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...
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Ukraine in 1930. At the age of 10 she moved to Moscow to study at the
Central Music School and continued her studies at the
Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where she was a disciple of
Alexander Goldenweiser. Her classmates included
Lazar Berman and
Dmitri Bashkirov. Upon graduation she appeared with orchestras in the former US, including the Kuybishev Philharmonic Orchestra and others.
In 1957, she married Russian operatic tenor and Yiddish singer
Leonid Kovler and moved to Moscow Oblast, Udelnaya where she devoted herself to teaching.
In 2003 she moved to
Haifa,
Israel where she continued to give masterclasses and perform until her death in 2018 at age 87. She is the paternal grandmother of Israeli-American composer
Mátti Kovler
Mátti Kovler ( he, מתי קובלר, born Dmitri Konstantinovich Kovler, Russian language, Russian: Дми́трий Константи́нович Ковлер; 14 September 1980, Moscow) is a Russian-born Israeli-American composer and creator ...
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1930 births
2018 deaths
Place of death missing
Ukrainian pianists
Ukrainian women pianists
Soviet pianists
Soviet women pianists