Famous People with Name Mischa

Mischa Elman            Origin/Culture/Country: Ukrainian

Mischa Elman: was a Ukrainian-born violinist, famed for his passionate style and beautiful tone. He was born in the small town of Talnoye near Kiev. His grandfather was a klezmer, a Jewish folk musician, who also played the violin. It became apparent when Mischa was ve

Mischa Maisky            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Mischa Maisky: is a celebrated cellist who won 6th Prize at the Moscow International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1966.Maisky began studies with Mstislav Rostropovich at the Moscow Conservatory whilst pursuing a concert career throughout the Soviet Union. In 1970, he was imprisoned in a labor camp near Gorky for 18 months

Mischa Levitzki            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Mischa Levitzki: was a Russian-born American concert pianist.Levitzki was born in Kremenchuk, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), to Jewish parents who were naturalised American citizens on a return trip to Ukraine. He was playing the violin at the age of three, but soon developed an interest in the piano, which he studied in Warsaw with Aleksander Michalowski before making his debut in Antwerp in 1906.

Mischa Spoliansky            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Mischa Spoliansky: was a Russian-born composer and a long-term resident in Britain. Spoliansky worked in a coffeehouse as a pianist in order to continue his musical education at the Stern'sches Konservatorium. Spoliansky's first compositions were played by the UFA-Filmtheaterorchester in Friedrichstraße. In addition he worked as a composer and pianist in a Russian émigré cabaret. There Victor Hollaender and Werner Richard Heymann heard him and invited him to write and play for the literary cabaret "Schall und Rauch" in the basement of the Große Schauspielhaus, which Max Reinhardt had founded in 1919. Spoliansky set the texts of Kurt Tucholsky, Klabund, Joachim Ringelnatz, and accompanied stars such as Gussy Holl, Paul O’Montis, Rosa Valetti and Trude Hesterberg. In 1920 under the pseudonym „Arno Billing“ he composed the melody for the first homosexual anthem called Das lila Lied, which he dedicated to Magnus Hirschfeld.

Mischa Anne Marsden Barton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Mischa Anne Marsden Barton: an English American film, television, and stage actress, perhaps best known for her role as Marissa Cooper in the American television series The O.C.Barton began acting at the age of eight (as she said on The Friday Night Project), co-starring in the Off Broadway premiere of Slavs!, written by Tony Kushner. She appeared in several other Off Broadway productions, taking a lead role in James Lapine's Twelve Dreams at Lincoln Center. She made her film debut in Lawn Dogs, which won awards at film festivals around the world. Since then, she has appeared in several films, such as The Sixth Sense, Notting Hill, St Trinians, and Closing the Ring. In St Trinians, she appeared as a former head girl of that school advising current senior pupils on fashion and style.