Camilla Kolchinsky

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| name = Camilla Kolchinsky

| image = camillakolchinsky.jpg

| alt = Camilla Kolchinsky

| native_name = Камилла Кольчинская

| native_name_lang = ru

| birth_name =

| birth_date = {{birth date |1931|12|25}}

| birth_place = Moscow, Russia

| death_date = {{death date and age|2016|02|16|1931|12|25|df=y}}

| death_place = Mountain View, California

| occupation = conductor (music)

| years_active =

| website = {{official website|https://web.archive.org/web/20220517014845/http://www.camillakolchinsky.com/en/bio.html}}

}}

Camilla Alexandrovna Kolchinsky (Russian: Камилла Александровна Кольчинская; 25 December 1931 – 16 February 2016)El Camino Youth Symphony. [http://www.ecys.org/?page=KolchinskyFund Kolchinsky Scholarship Fund] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180228080552/http://www.ecys.org/?page=KolchinskyFund |date=28 February 2018 }} was a Jewish conductor who was born in Russia. She was born in Moscow and made her debut as a conductor in Leningrad, now is known as St. Petersburg, while still a student. In 1976 she emigrated to Israel.{{Cite web|url=http://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/morgue/cover/1996_Nov_8.1START08.html|title=A well-conducted life|last=Harrington|first=Jim|date=8 November 1996|publisher=Palo Alto Weekly|access-date=3 February 2017}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LYMVAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Camilla+Kolchinsky%22|title=Films Suédois|date=1 January 1988|publisher=Svenska Filminstitutet|pages=63|language=en}} She had conducted performances of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and according to Gramophone was "one of the few Russian women to have made a successful international career as a conductor."Greenfield, Edward (April 1995). [http://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/glazunovdvor%C3%A1k-violin-concertos Review: Glazunov/Dvorák Violin Concertos"].Gramophone{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pXNZAAAAMAAJ&q=Camilla+Kolchinsky|title=Variety Film Reviews|date=1 January 1987|publisher=Garland Pub.|isbn=9780835226677|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ayT5T59ckzIC&q=Camilla+Kolchinsky&pg=PA286|title=Classical Music: The Listener's Companion|last=Morin|first=Alexander J.|date=1 January 2002|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=9780879306380|pages=286|language=en}} At the time of her death she was the emeritus director of the El Camino Youth Orchestra.