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Eleanor Sokoloff

Eleanor Sokoloff was an American pianist and academic who formed a piano duo with her husband, Vladimir Sokoloff. She taught piano on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music from 1936 until her death in 2020.

Early life and education
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Sokoloff was the daughter of a barber. Her mother was an amateur singer and encouraged her daughter's musical interests. She began her studies with Ruth Edwards at the Cleveland Institute of Music at the age of eight. In 1931, she enrolled at the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied piano with David Saperton and chamber music with Louis Bailly. ==Career==
Career
Sokoloff later studied the duo-piano repertoire with Vera Brodsky and Harold Triggs Sean Kennard, Jerome Lowenthal, Terence Yung, Leon McCawley, and Randall Hodgkinson. In 2001, in recognition of her tenure, Sokoloff received the Curtis Alumni Award. She turned 100 in June 2014 and was praised in a ceremony as "free of nostalgia for the good old days while still embodying the highest of golden-age standards". She was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by Curtis that same year. ==Personal life==
Personal life
Sokoloff died in Philadelphia of natural causes on July 12, 2020, at the age of 106. ==References==
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