Abram Zamikhovsky
Origin/Culture/Country: UkrainianAbram Zamikhovsky: was a Ukrainian chess master and former national champion. In 1931 he won the 6th Ukranian Championship in Kharkov ahead of Vsevolod Rauzer and took 14th in the 7th USSR Championship in Moscow (Mikhail Botvinnik won). At that time, he was a student of medical faculty at the Kiev University. In 1936, he took 8th in the 16th Championship of Moscow. In 1938, he took 2nd, behind Isaac Boleslavsky, in Kiev (10th UKR-ch).
Abram Model
Origin/Culture/Country: RussianAbram Model: was a Russian chess master, although he had his master title taken away by the Soviet chess authorities due to lack of results.Abram Yakovlevich Model was born in Daugavpils, Latvia. Then he lived in St. Petersburg (Petrograd, Leningrad). During the World War II, he won the 18th Championship of Leningrad in 1944. He shared third place in the 1927 USSR Chess Championship.
Abram Rabinovich
Origin/Culture/Country: LithuanianAbram Rabinovich: was a Lithuanian–Russian chess master.Abram Isaakovich Rabinovich was born in Vilna (Vilnius, Wilno), then Russian Empire, into a Jewish family. In 1903, he tied for 11-12th in Kiev (3rd All-Russian Masters' Tournament, Mikhail Chigorin won). In 1908, he
Abram Davidovich Zamikhovsky Origin/Culture/Country: UkrainianAbram Davidovich Zamikhovsky: was a Ukrainian chess master and former national champion.In 1931 he won the 6th Ukranian Championship in Kharkov ahead of Vsevolod Rauzer and took 14th in the 7th USSR Championship in Moscow (Mikhail Botvinnik won). At that time, he was a student of medi
Abram Chasins
Origin/Culture/Country: AmericanAbram Chasins: was an American composer and pianist.Chasins' career as a pianist lasted from 1927 until 1947. On January 1, 1929, he made his debut playing his own Piano Concerto with the Philadelphia Orchestra. From 1926 to 1935 he taught piano as a member of the faculty of the Curtis Institute. Chasins was associated with the radio station WQXR from 1941 to 1965, becoming the music director in 1946. In 1949 he married Constance Keene, a pianist and former student of his, with whom he performed and recorded piano duos. In 1972 he joined the University of Southern California as musician-in-residence, and reorganized the student-run radio station KUSC into a channel for classical and modern music. He retired in 1977, and died of cancer at his home in Manhattan on June 21, 1987.
Jacques Abram
Origin/Culture/Country: AmericanJacques Abram: an American classical pianist, was born in Lufkin, Texas[1] and died in Tampa, Florida[2].Abram began improvising at age 3 and performing in public at age 6. At the urging of Ignace Jan Paderewski and Josef Hofmann, who had heard Abram in concert, his parents enrolled him in the Curtis Institute, where he studied with Ernest Hutcheson. At age 13, Abram transferred to the Juilliard School, where he continued his studies with Hofmann and David Saperton. The National Federation of Music Clubs awarded Abram its Schubert Memorial Award in 1937[2].