[4] She graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory,[5] where she studied with Leopold Auer,[6] Mikhail Gnessin,[7] Anatoly Lyadov, and Maximilian Steinberg.
[8] In 1908,[9] she joined Gnessin and Lazare Saminsky as founding members of the Society for Jewish Folk Music in St. Petersburg.
It promoted Jewish folk music through research, composition, performance, and publishing.
[10] At least one of Streicher’s compositions, “A Simple Soviet Man,” was recorded commercially by pianist Maria Yudina in 1937.
[11] Streicher’s compositions included: Noch Fialki[8] Armenian String Quartet[8] Improvisation (cello and piano)[8] Sonata (cello and piano)[8] String Quartet[8] Suite (string quartet)[8] Suite on Folk Themes of the Peoples of the Soviet Union (string quartet)[8] Chasi (for children; text by Elizaveta Polonskaya)[8] Jewish Poem[8] Zhenshchina Vostoka (chorus and orchestra; text by Elizaveta Polonskaya)[8] Six Pieces[8] Sonata[8] Twelve Children’s Pieces on Folk Themes of the USSR[8] “A Simple Soviet Man” (with Sergey Germanov; lyrics by Vasily Lebedev-Kumach )[11] “Klyatva” (text by Elizaveta Polonskaya)[8] Romances (text by Fyodor Tyuchev and Paul Verlaine)[8] Seven Poems from Eugene Onegin (text by Alexander Pushkin)[8] “Shir Hashirim”[12] “Song of Songs”[13] Ten Jewish Work Songs[8] “Ya Lesom Shia”[8]