From 1928, she also received violin lessons from Robert Pollack at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
In 1934 she performed Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in front of an audience of one thousand at the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra under Ossip Gabrilowitsch, and in 1937 she made her debut in New York's Town Hall.
In 1938, she traveled to Europe to study with Carl Flesch and gave concerts in Belgium, the Netherlands and England.
[3] In 1939, Solovieff was an eyewitness when her estranged father fatally shot her mother, her sister and finally himself; she herself escaped unharmed.
[3] During the Second World War, she worked as a violinist for the US Army's troop support unit and also gave concerts in the liberated concentration camps of Buchenwald and Auschwitz.