Vladimir Sokoloff (pianist)

Vladimir Sokoloff (pianist)
Dr. Vladimir Sokoloff and pianist Ruth Butterfield-Winter in front of the Curtis Institute of Music
Background information
Born	New York, New York, United States
Died	October 27, 1997 Philadelphia
Genres	Classical
Instruments	Piano

Vladimir Sokoloff, (Dr. Vladimir Sokoloff), (1913 – 1997) was a pianist and accompanist on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music. In addition to his teaching work with the accompanying, piano and chamber music students, he was an active performer, collaborating with many of his era's great musicians, most notably Efrem Zimbalist.

Born in New York in 1913, Sokoloff entered the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia in 1929, studying with Abram Chasins, Harry Kaufman and Louis Bailly. He joined the faculty in 1936. In 1942, he took part in the founding of the New School in Philadelphia, (now the Esther Boyer School of Music at Temple University) with his colleagues Jascha Brodsky, Max Aronoff and Orlando Cole. From 1938 to 1950 he was pianist for the Philadelphia Orchestra. As a recital accompanist and pianist with a career of over 70 years, his repertoire spanned all instrumental and vocal genres and styles. Sokoloff collaborated with such artists as the violinists Efrem Zimbalist, (with whom he had a twenty-seven-year collaboration, accompanying recitals all over the world),Jaime Laredo, Toshia Eto, and Aaron Rosand; the violists William Primrose and Joseph di Pasquale; the cellists Gregor Piatigorsky and Emanuel Feuermann; flutist Julius Baker, William Kincaid, oboist Marcel Tabuteau as well as soprano Marcella Sembrich.