Eleonora Turovsky

Classical violinist, born September 1939 in Moscow, died March 2nd, 2012 in Montreal. She studied at the Moscow Conservatory and taught at the Ippolitov-Ivanov College of Music from 1964 to 1976. She left the Soviet Union in 1976 with her family and settled in Montreal. She became a naturalized Canadian in 1980. She was the concertmaster of [a2839318], the chamber orchestra founded by her cellist husband Yuli Turovsky in 1983 and in which their daughter [a2096378] also played violin. Eleonora taught violin and viola at the Université de Montréal from 1991 to 2012. She was also an accomplished painter.