Inna Heifetz
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Heifetz first performed in public at the age of six. Recital and concert tours have taken her to Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Germany and France. She has played many concerts in the United States, and has appeared as soloist with Ricercata de Paris, Musica Viva, the Liederkranz Orchestra of New York, the Liszt Festival Symphony Orchestra, the Boston University Symphony Orchestra, and others. Heifetz has won the First Prize in the Liederkranz Foundation Competition in New York, the First Prize in the Aaron Richmond Piano Competition in Boston, the Marie Baier Foundation Award and the Gold Medal in the Tape Recording Competition of the Piano Teachers Guild in New York.
Heifetz studied at the famous Stolyarsky School
School of Stolyarsky
School of Stolyarsky is a music school established in Odessa, Ukraine in 1933 by the initiation and vision of the eminent violin pedagogue Pyotr Stolyarsky....
in Odessa, the New England Conservatory in Boston and Boston University. She attended Tanglewood Institute where she was given the most promising performer award. Her teachers included Oxana Yablonskaya
Oxana Yablonskaya
Oxana Yablonskaya is a Russian pianist who has had an active international performance career since the early 1960s. She began her career in the USSR and, although winning several important competitions in the West, was denied by the Soviet government to accept any performance engagements outside...
, Gary Graffman
Gary Graffman
Gary Graffman is an American classical pianist, teacher of piano and music administrator.Graffman was born in New York City to Russian-Jewish parents. Having started piano at age 3, Graffman entered the Curtis Institute of Music at age 7 in 1936 as a piano student of Isabelle Vengerova...
and Russell Sherman
Russell Sherman
Russell Sherman is an American classical pianist, educator and author.Russell Sherman made his debut at The Town Hall in New York at age 15; later studying piano with Edward Steuermann and composition with Erich Itor Kahn...
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Heifetz records for Sonora Productions.