She was a student of Adrian Yegorov at the Gnessin Institute of Music in Moscow and graduated from the Stolyarsky Music School in Odessa, Ukraine. She has won several international prizes and awards, among them the Aaron Richmond Award, the Marie Baier Foundation Award, and the Gold Medal in the Tape Recording Competition in New York in 1983. Ms. Heifetz's most recent recording of music by Alfred Schnittke was nominated for the 1998 AFIM Awards. There is no shortage of good Haydn Sonatas in the Cataloque, but this shines out among the many. Heifetz is clearly an artist of depth who deserves a long and successful career.
Performances are quite fine, utterly sympathetic to the many styles contained within the collection.