Tossy Spivakovsky appeared as a guest violinist for the Canton Symphony Orchestra on December 5, 1945.
He was born in the late Russian Empire in a part that now lands inside modern day Ukraine, and moved to Berlin as a child. He took private music lessons at a Hochschule in Berlin, studying under Arrigo Serato and Willy Hess.
When he was ten, he began his performing career, and started touring Europe at the Young age of thirteen.