Mikhail Kopelman
Russian-American violinist
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Mikhail Kopelman is a Russian-American violinist.
He was born in 1947 in Uzhhorod and studied at the Moscow Conservatory with professors Maya Glezarova and Yuri Yankelevich.[1] In 1973, he was awarded 2nd prize in the Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition.[2]
He was a member of the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, and was a concertmaster of the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra. He played first violin in the Borodin Quartet for 20 years starting in 1976.[3] He played first violin in the Tokyo String Quartet.[4]
Kopelman taught at the Moscow Conservatory from 1980 to 1993. He emigrated to the United States with his family in 1993. He currently is a first violin in the Kopelman Quartet,[5] and a professor of violin at the Eastman School of Music, (Rochester, New York).[6]
