Grammy Award-Winning Violinist, A respected recitalist, recording artist, and teacher, she shall probably be best remembered as an interpreter of 20th century music. Raised initially in southeastern Russia, she relocated with her family to Odessa after World War II, evidenced her talent early, studied for three years at the Stolyarsky School of Music, then moved on to Moscow's Tchaikovsky Conservatory where she was trained by the legendary violinist David Oistrakh. Lydia won the 1967 National Young Musicians Competition at Kiev and the 1969 Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition in Paris, served as Maestro Oistrakh's assistant for a time, and in the mid-1970s moved to Israel where she taught at the Israel Academy of Music. She was to develop a fondness for England after performing in Manchester and in 1980 made a permanent move to London where she soon signed a contract with Chandos Records that eventually resulted in more than 20 albums. Lydia gave well-attended concerts that were more noted for technical precision than for 'flash' and in 1982 made her American debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Sir Georg Solti; busy in the studio, she recorded the music of composers ranging from Bach to Dimitri Shostakovich with a goodly representation of such British artists as Sir Arnold Bax, William Alwyn, and Herbert Howells. In 1987 she preserved the complete concertos of Dimitri Kabalevsky, then in 1988 did likewise for those of Serge Prokofiev, and in 1990 captured her Grammy for two Shostakovich concertos, her performances felt by many to be superior to those of her own teacher for whom they were written. A highly regarded professor at London's Royal Academy of Music from 1995 on, she kept up an active schedule until her terminal illness. At her death from cancer, much of her vast recorded legacy remained available.