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NADYA FEIGELSON

TEACHER OF VIOLIN, VIOLA and CHAMBER MUSIC

Nadya Feigelson (Beauharnais) has been successfully teaching violin for more than thirty years. Her students are frequently noted at the local and state level auditions.

The name of a famous Russian composer Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky seemed to follow Mrs. Feigelson throughout her life. She was born in Moscow, Russia but her family was immediately exiled to Siberian town of Votkinsk, birthplace of Tchaikovsky, where she started to study violin at the age of six. She has completed her studies at the Sverdlovsk Academy of Music and at University of Perm. Mrs. Feigelson gave her first violin lesson when she was only 18 years old and quickly established herself as a talented teacher. In addition, she was hired to do research at the museums of Tchaikovsky in Votkinsk and Klin. Later Mrs. Feigelson continued to teach in Moscow, played with several orchestras, and had published many articles about musicians and composers at leading newspapers and magazines.

Mrs. Feigelson met her future husband, cellist Josef Feigelson in Moscow while reporting on the up-coming 1974 Tchaikovsky International Competition. They came to the United States in 1981. Their younger son Eugene is also a violinist and recent graduate from the renowned Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y.

Nadya Feigelson (on the left) playing as a student at the Tchaikovsky School-Museum in Russia (1961)

After a public performance (1982)

Attending a group of young students (1999)