The prominent pedagogue, who taught numerous renowned violinists, was 79
The Russian violinist and pedagogue Natalia (Natasha) Boyarsky died on 19 December 2025, aged 79. She was the wife of cellist Alexander Boyarsky and mother of violist Konstantin Boyarsky.
Boyarsky studied violin at Moscow Conservatory under the tutelage of Maya Glezarova and Yuri Yankelevich, later graduating from the Gnessin State Musical College under Felix Andrievsky.
A prominent pedagogue, she taught at the junior department of Moscow Conservatory from 1971 to 1990, heading the school’s strings department.
At the invitation of Yehudi Menuhin in 1991, she moved to London, UK, where she began teaching at the Yehudi Menuhin School. From 1996, she was professor of violin at the Royal College of Music.
She taught many violinists who went on to have high-profile careers, including Nicola Benedetti, Alina Ibragimova, Chloë Hanslip, Corina Belcea, Benjamin Baker, Alexander Sitkovetsky and Valery Sokolov.
She played a Frédéric Chaudière violin which she commissioned in 2016, and lent the instrument to several of her advanced students, where it was played in Wigmore Hall and other important venues.
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