Yuli Turovsky OC CQ (Russian: Юлий Туровский; 7 June 1939 – 15 January 2013) was a Soviet-born Canadian cellist, conductor and music educator.
[3] He also became the lead cello for the Moscow Chamber Orchestra which Rudolf Barshai had founded about fifteen years earlier and this association marked the beginning of Turovsky's recording career.
[3] In 1976 he left Russia with his wife Eleonora (herself a professional violinist), his daughter Natasha and his father and settled in Montreal in 1977.
[1] In 1976 Turovsky and fellow Soviet emigrants Rostislav Dubinsky (violin) and Luba Edlina (piano) founded the Borodin Trio.
[1][6] One of his last students, Stéphane Tétreault, is regarded as one of the top young talents in classical music in Canada.