Virginia Eskin

Virginia Eskin (, born November 13, 1940) is an American pianist, writer and record label founder. She is most known for performing the works of female composers, particularly Amy Beach.

Biography Virginia Rubottom was born on November 13, 1940, in New York City, United States. She studied piano in Los Angeles, California, with Aube Tzerko; in London, England, with Gina Bachauer, Myra Hess and Ilona Kabos; then in Boston, Massachusetts, with Leonard Shure.

Eskin married cellist Jules Eskin in 1967 and they moved to South End, Boston, Massachusetts, when he joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) in 1964. Eskin signed to Columbia Artists in 1977

Eskin founded Northeastern Records. She has also recorded works by two Jewish musicians who were incarcerated in the Theresienstadt Ghetto by the Nazis in World War II, Gideon Klein and Viktor Ulmann, with the Hawthorne Quartet.

Eskin has given lectures at colleges and universities in America, including the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston University, Brandeis University, Harvard University and Northeastern University. She has studied and given talks on Black American composers, such as Margaret Bonds, Zenobia Powell Perry, Florence Price and Mary Lou Williams. and has performed on radio programs. She was the co-producer, with John Gfoerer, of the teleivision documentary Composer: Amy Beach, which was broadcast on PBS.

Eskin was honored by a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Lotus Club of New York.