Gwendolyn Koldofsky
Canadian music educator
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gwendolyn Koldofsky was a Canadian piano accompanist and music educator who became renowned in her field, a Professor Emerita at USC . Born Gwendolyn Williams in Bowmanville, Ontario, she studied piano with noted Danish piano teacherViggo Kihl in Toronto, with Tobias Matthay in London, as well as with Marguerite Hasselmans in Paris. She studied accompanying in London with Harold Craxton. In 1943, she married Adolph Koldofsky, a noted Canadian violinist born in London, England of Russian-Jewish parents. The pair lived in Toronto until 1944, moving to Vancouver and then to Los Angeles in 1945. Gwendolyn Koldofsky created the first Department of Accompaniment at the music school of the University of Southern California in 1947, where she taught chamber music accompaniment and song literature. She gave master vocal classes for singers and taught accompanying at other North American music schools and universities. in 1951 Koldofsky founded the annual Koldofsky Fellowship in Accompanying scholarship at the USC music school in commemoration of her husband, who had died the same year. Koldofsky was director of vocal accompanying at the Music Academy of the West from 1951 to 1989.
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