Mark Yampolsky was a Russian and Soviet cellist and teacher. He was born on 24 January (5 February) 1879 in Yekaterinoslav, the son of Ilya Abramovich Yampolsky and Khana-Feiga Yampolskaya.
From 1897 to 1901, he studied cello at the Kyiv Music College with F. V. Mullert. He taught cello in Yekaterinoslav from 1901 to 1903 and in Poltava from 1903 to 1904. He then studied at the Paris Conservatory from 1904 to 1907 and at the St. Petersburg Conservatory from 1907 to 1913 with Emil Herbeck.
From 1914 to 1918, Yampolsky taught cello at the Petrograd Conservatory as an adjunct in Herbeck’s class. He moved to Moscow in 1921, where he performed in chamber concerts and with the First Symphony Ensemble Without a Conductor.
From 1922 to 1951, he taught at several Moscow institutions, including the Moscow Conservatory and its Central Music School. He also taught at the Scriabin Music College from 1926 to 1929 and the Gnessin Music School from 1928 to 1930. In 1930, he became a professor at the Moscow Conservatory. His students included Leonid Ginzburg, Boris Dobrokhotov, Alexander Stogorsky, and Yakov Slobodkin. In 1936, he published a cello technique manual on scales and arpeggios in varied bowing patterns and rhythms.
Yampolsky died in Moscow on 18 February 1951.
Organizations
- Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Saint Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory
- Paris Conservatory
- Central Music School – Academy of Performing Arts (Moscow)
- Moscow Regional Basic Music College named after A. N. Scriabin
- Gnessin Music College
- Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS)
- R. Glier Kyiv Municipal Academy of Music
- Academic Music College at the Moscow Conservatory
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