RIP Soviet Emigre Orchestra chief

RIP Soviet Emigre Orchestra chief

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norman lebrecht

July 31, 2019

Lazar Gosman, the Lengingrad Philharmonic concertmaster who founded the Soviet Emigre Orchestra on reaching the US in 1977, has died in New York state at the age of 93.

He was professor of violin successively at the Moscow Conservatoire, Leningrad Conservatoire, in St Louis and at New York State University at Stony Brook.

 

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