Alla Krolevich, Second violin

Alla Krolevich (Goryainova) was born in 1964 in the town Polevskoy in the Sverdlovsk region. In 1982, she graduated with distinction from the special music school of the Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg) State Conservatory. In the same year, she entered the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory. During her studies (1982-1986), Alla was recognized as a very talented musician, a virtuous violinist, and a serious chamber music player.

In 1985 she was invited to play with the Leningrad Conservatory String Quartet (the future St. Petersburg String Quartet) under the supervision of Professor Ovcharek, first violinist of the legendary Taneyev String Quartet. With the quartet, Alla was the Grand Prix winner of the All-Soviet Union Quartet Competition in Voronezh in 1986, and a laureate of the First International Shostakovich Competition in Moscow the same year. The quartet also received a special prize for the best performance of quartets of Shostakovich. While working with the St. Petersburg quartet, Alla achieved a very high level of professionalism, and embraced a large quartet repertoire including quartets of Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Prokofiev, Ravel, and Borodin. In 1990 she and her family emigrated to Israel, where she played in the Israel Symphony Orchestra (Rishon Letsion) and in the Israel Opera and Ballet Theater. She participated actively in chamber music projects under the aegis of the orchestra and of the theater. Alla rejoined the St. Petersburg String Quartet in October 2005.