Regina Horowitz

Regina Samoylovna Horowitz (first married name Rosenfeld, second married name Liberman; 1899/1900–1984) was a Soviet pianist and music educator, and the sister of the pianist Vladimir Horowitz. She was born in Kyiv and studied at the Kyiv Conservatory with Vladimir Pukhalsky.

In 1926 she moved with her parents to Moscow, where her father took a managerial position in a state design institute for sugar factories. In 1927 she remarried and relocated to Kharkiv, which became the center of her professional life.

During the 1920s and 1930s she concertized actively across the USSR and worked as a collaborative pianist, performing as accompanist with leading musicians including Nathan Milstein and David Oistrakh. Her performing career was abruptly curtailed in 1937 after Vladimir Horowitz decided not to return to the Soviet Union and, later that year, her father was arrested; he was exiled in 1938 to Totma in the Vologda region for five years and died in exile.

After being banned from performing, Regina Liberman (Horowitz) turned to teaching, first at the Kharkiv music college and then for several decades at the Kharkiv Conservatory, also teaching at the conservatory’s affiliated ten-year school. From the 1960s she maintained contact with her brother, receiving his recordings and introducing them to Kharkiv musicians, but this connection reportedly brought surveillance, career difficulties, and restrictions on travel.

Her pedagogical work was publicly praised in 1975 in the journal "Soviet Music" by Yakov Zak. Her students included T. Kravtsov, V. Makarov, S. Polusmyak, I. Naimark, L. Margarius, and S. Zakharova. She married the musician Bernard Rosenfeld in 1919 and later married the economist Yevsey Grigoryevich Liberman in 1927.

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