Marina Keselman graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where she studied violin with M. S. Glezarova and chamber ensemble with T. A. Alikhanov.
She played for several years in a string quartet and from 1985 began teaching at the music school of the Academic Music College at the Moscow Conservatory. She was later invited to join the College faculty and, from 2005, the Moscow Conservatory, initially as assistant to Professor M. S. Glezarova and subsequently with her own class.
She is the author and compiler of collections of etudes and exercises for violin students, editor of violin repertoire works, and has taken part in developing and reviewing curricula for music schools, colleges and conservatories. She regularly gives seminars and professional development courses for teachers at children’s music schools and music colleges across Russia.
She has given open lessons and masterclasses in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Bolivia and South Korea, and has collaborated with the charitable foundations «New Names», the E. Gilels and L. Kogan Foundation, «Art, Science and Sport» and the Educational Foundation «Talent and Success».
She has served on juries of competitions in the United Kingdom, Italy and various Russian cities.
Marina Keselman is a laureate of the federal target programme «Gifted Children» of the Presidential programme «Children of Russia» for her outstanding contribution to work with gifted children (Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of 13 December 2001) and has been awarded the title «Honoured Cultural Worker of the Russian Federation» (Certificate No. 200646, Presidential Decree of 28 December 2007).
