David Josefowitz CBE (25 December 1918 – 10 January 2015) was a British violinist, conductor and music producer. He was the founder of the London Soloists Chamber Orchestra.
Life
David Josefowitz, with his brother, Samuel Mulik Josefowitz (1921–2015), co-founded
Concert Hall Society, Inc., a subscription-mail-order classical record label. David was an accomplished violinist and occasionally performed and composed under the pseudonym
Jose Davido.
Education
After completing a year studying at
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule
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in
Zürich
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, David Josefowitz was admitted as a sophomore around 1938 to the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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, where he studied chemistry and played association football. He also pledged to the
Sigma Alpha Mu
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fraternity at MIT in 1938. David Josefowitz was an expert in plastics and, in 1945, earned a
PhD
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in Chemistry from the
Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
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, which now is part of the
New York University Tandon School of Engineering
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.
David had also studied music (violin) at the
Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory
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in
Berlin
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.
Family
David Josefowitz was born on 25 December 1918 in
Kharkiv
Kharkiv, also known as Kharkov, is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ukraine. , Ukraine, to the marriage of Zelik Josefowitz (1884–1949) and Frieda Shur (maiden; 1890–1983). David married Tanya R. Kagan on 2 May 1949 in
Manhattan
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.
See also
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Concert Hall Society
Concert Hall Society, Inc., was a New York City-based membership-subscription-oriented record production and distribution company founded in 1946 by Samuel Mulik Josefowitz (1921–2015) and David Josefowitz (1918–2015), brothers. The New York ...
References
1918 births
2015 deaths
Ukrainian conductors (music)
British male conductors (music)
Members of the Order of the British Empire
20th-century British conductors (music)
21st-century British conductors (music)
20th-century male musicians
21st-century male musicians
Commanders_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire
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