School of Stolyarsky

Stolyarsky School is a music school for musically gifted children established in 1933 in Odesa, Ukraine, by the violin pedagogue Pyotr Stolyarsky.

At the start of his career, Stolyarsky, a master violinist, offered private violin lessons in his studio and subsequently became the founding member of the Stolyarsky Specialized Music School of Odesa.

The school offered musical instruction for gifted children from a young age; to be admitted to the school, a child had to have perfect pitch and was examined in a series of rigorous evaluations.

Notable pupils included

Stolyarsky's students won various prizes in competitions, including the 1935 Wieniawski competition in Warsaw; placed entrants included Ginette Neveu, David Oistrakh, Henri Temianka, Boris Goldstein, and Josef Hassid. In 1937 at the International Ysaye competition, the Stolyarsky students David Oistrakh, Boris Goldstein, Yelizaveta Gilels, and Mikhail Fikhtengoltz won prizes.

After the professor's death, the Stolyarsky school continued to produce a new generation of notable musicians from the 1950s to the 1970s; among them were

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• Emil Gilels - A Portrait (Biography) by Prof. Dr. Elena Federovitch Ekaterinburg, 2007

• The Queen Elisabeth Competition
• Stolyarsky archives (in Russian)
• Stolyarsky and his students
• ДВА ФЕНОМЕНА СТОЛЯРСКОГО
• Emil Gilels in Memoriam
• Eduard Grach Profile on onepoint.fm