Rosa Fain (German: Rosa Fain; 20 December 1929, Odessa - 8 February 2025, Dusseldorf) was a Soviet and German violinist and music teacher. From the age of four she studied at the Stolyarsky Music School under Benyamin Mordkovich, and later graduated from the Odessa Conservatory in 1954 under the same teacher. From 1956 to 1960 she pursued postgraduate studies at the Moscow Conservatory with David Oistrakh.
In 1957 Fain won the International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in Poland. From 1954 to 1956 she was a soloist of the Kyiv Philharmonic, and afterward she concertized throughout the Soviet Union. In 1958 she took part in a concert tour of Kuzbass and Altai together with Dmitry Kabalevsky, Aram Khachaturian, and Viktor Pikayzen.
She made several recordings, including Henryk Wieniawski's Violin Concerto No. 2, Eugene Ysaye's "Extase", and Camille Saint-Saens's Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kirill Kondrashin.
In 1980 she emigrated from the USSR with her husband and son, stating that the reason was antisemitism. According to her recollections, when emigrating she was not allowed to take her violin out of the USSR. In the same year she became a professor at the Dusseldorf University of Music, where she taught for several decades.
Rosa Fain died on 8 February 2025 in Dusseldorf at the age of 95.
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