Aileen Russell Worby, Eileen C. Tcherniak, Eileen C. Cathie
Occupation
Violinist
Spouses
Vidoslav Anđelković,
Grisha Tcherniak
Eileen Andjelkovitch (18 March 1896 – 15 October 1941), LRAM, born Eileen Constance Smith, was a British violinist, music educator, and musical director.
Eileen Russell Worby was usually described as Scottish,[1][2][3] but Eileen Constance Smith was born in Ireland, the daughter of Frank and Annie Smith; the Smiths lived in Buckinghamshire by 1901.[4] She was adopted by widowed Scottish-born music teacher Anna Alexander Russell Worby, and was living in London by 1911.[5] Successful examination by the Royal Academy of Music granted her a license to teach violin in 1923.[6][7][8]
As a young woman, Eileen Russell Worby played violin at theatres,[9] and was musical director at the Broadway Gardens Kinema in Walham Green in London.[10]
Andjelkovitch was a concert violinist.[1] She gave a concert at London's Aeolian Hall in 1927,[11] and accompanied Welsh baritone Owen Bryngwyn at the same venue in another concert that year.[12] She also made several recordings in the 1920s.[13] "She has an exceptionally rich tone and a great deal of temperament," wrote one reviewer in 1925.[14]
She performed on BBC Radio broadcasts in the 1920s[15][16] and 1930s.[17][18][19] On the London stage, she was musical director of the shows Jane and Genius (1934), The Mask and the Face (1934)[20] and Within the Gates (1934).[21] In 1936, she conducted the King's Theatre Orchestra at a benefit concert in Hammersmith.[22]
Andjelkovitch was also known as a music educator. She was principal of the Fulham Central College of Music in 1927,[23] and in 1932 and 1933,[24] she principal of the Modern School of Music on Fulham Road in London.[6]
Russell married a Yugoslavian diplomat, Vidoslav Andjelkovitch, in July 1921.[25][26][27] She married fellow musician Gregori (Grisha) Tcherniak in 1934.[28] She married a third time, to musician George Ernest Cathie. In 1941 she died at the age of 45, at a nursing home in Worthing.[29]
^"Round the London Theatres". The Kinematograph and Lantern Weekly. 20 March 1919. p. 92. Retrieved September 17, 2023 – via The British Newspaper Archive, via The Wikipedia Library.
^"Broadway Gardens Kinema, Walham Green". The Kinematograph Weekly. 18 March 1920. p. 135. Retrieved September 17, 2023 – via The British Newspaper Archive, via The Wikipedia Library.
^"Russian Song Recital". The Guardian. 1927-12-29. p. 8. Retrieved 2023-09-17 – via Newspapers.com.
^"Frae a' the Airts". Edinburgh Evening News. 13 August 1928. p. 9. Retrieved September 17, 2023 – via The British Newspaper Archive, via The Wikipedia Library.
^"Post Office Orphan Homes". Middlesex County Times. 28 November 1936. p. 24. Retrieved September 17, 2023 – via The British Newspaper Archive, via The Wikipedia Library.
^"Fulham College of Music Concert". Fulham Chronicle. 23 December 1927. p. 6. Retrieved September 17, 2023 – via The British Newspaper Archive, via The Wikipedia Library.
^"A Serbian Affair". Westminster Gazette. 30 April 1927. p. 4. Retrieved September 17, 2023 – via The British Newspaper Archive, via The Wikipedia Library.
^"Not a Foreigner". Dundee Courier. 9 May 1927. p. 10. Retrieved September 17, 2023 – via The British Newspaper Archive, via The WIkipedia Library.
^Grisha Tcherniak in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005; married in April 1934 to Eileen C. Andjelkovitch; via Ancestry
^England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 for Eileen C Cathie, via Ancestry