Nelli Efimovna Shkolnikova (Russian: Нелли Ефимовна Школьникова; 8 July 1928 – 2 February 2010) was a Soviet violinist who spent many years teaching in Australia and the United States.
At the age of five she entered the Moscow Conservatory, where she studied with Lillia Kossodo and Yuri Yankelevich.
She appeared in concert in the then Soviet Union, Europe, USA, Canada, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.
[1] She settled in Melbourne, Australia, where she taught at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA),[1] an offer made to her after meeting the conductor John Hopkins in Germany.
[4] In 1987, on the recommendation of Isaac Stern, she was invited to join the faculty of Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music as professor of violin.