Maxim Alexandrovich Vengerov (Hebrew: מקסים וונגרוב Russian: Максим Александрович Венгеров, born August 20, 1974) is a violin master and virtuoso who was born in the Soviet Union.
Vengerov was born to Aleksandr and Larissa Vengerov, a Jewish family in Novosibirsk. Both his parents were musicians - his mother, a voice teacher, was the director of a children's choir, while his father was the first oboist of the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Symphony Or...
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Maxim Alexandrovich Vengerov (Hebrew: מקסים וונגרוב Russian: Максим Александрович Венгеров, born August 20, 1974) is a violin master and virtuoso who was born in the Soviet Union.
Vengerov was born to Aleksandr and Larissa Vengerov, a Jewish family in Novosibirsk. Both his parents were musicians - his mother, a voice teacher, was the director of a children's choir, while his father was the first oboist of the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. At age 5, he received his first violin lessons from Galina Turtschaninova. Around age 7, he went to Moscow with his grandparents and teacher to study at The Central Special Music School, a specialist school affiliated with the Tchaikovsky Conservatory.
At age 10, after his grandfather became ill, the family returned to Novosibirsk, where Maxim studied with Zakhar Bron. He won the Junior Wieniawski violin competition at this time. At age 11, he played at the opening concert of the Eighth International Tchaikovsky Competition. When Bron...
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