Benjamin Zynoviyovych Mordkovych (19 January 1906, Odesa - 1992, Odesa) was a Ukrainian Soviet violinist and music teacher.
Biography.
A student of Petro Stoliarsky, in whose family he lived in 1915-1920, after being left an orphan.
He was a friend of David Oistrakh.
In the pre-war years, he gave concerts in Odesa as a soloist and as the leader of the string quartet of the Odesa Beethoven Music and Drama Institute (Muzdramin).
He worked in Perm, Baku, and Tbilisi.
After returning to Odesa from evacuation in 1944, he devoted himself mainly to teaching.
He was a lecturer at the Odesa Conservatory (from 1954 - associate professor, from 1972 - professor) and the P. Stolyarsky Music Boarding School.
Among his most successful students were Eduard Hrach, Semen Yaroshevych, Olha Kaverzniieva, Rosa Fine, Olha Dubossarska-Kaler, Valerii Klymov, Dora Schwartzberg, as well as his son, later professor at the Odesa Conservatory Leonid Mordkovych and his wife Lidiia Mordkovych (1944-2014). His son Leonid later emigrated to the United States, where he died early.
In 1977, Benjamin officially retired, but continued to work as a consultant at the Conservatory.
He passed away in 1992 in Odesa.
Awards
Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945"
Two badges "For Excellent Work" from the Ministry of Culture of the USSR
