10 Facts About Eleanor Sokoloff

Eleanor Sokoloff was an American pianist and academic who formed a piano duo with her husband, Vladimir Sokoloff.

Eleanor Sokoloff taught piano on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music from 1936 until her death in 2020.

Eleanor Sokoloff's mother was an amateur singer and encouraged her daughter's musical interests.

Eleanor Sokoloff began her studies with Ruth Edwards at the Cleveland Institute of Music at the age of eight.

Eleanor Sokoloff later studied the duo-piano repertoire with Vera Brodsky and Harold Triggs and eventually formed a duo team with her husband, pianist Vladimir Eleanor Sokoloff.

Eleanor Sokoloff joined the Curtis faculty in 1936, at first as an instructor to non-piano majors, and in 1950 became a full-fledged member of the piano faculty.

In 2001, in recognition of her tenure, Eleanor Sokoloff received the Curtis Alumni Award.

Eleanor Sokoloff 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".

Eleanor Sokoloff was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by Curtis that same year.

Eleanor Sokoloff died in Philadelphia of natural causes on July 12,2020, at the age of 106.