Maxim Vengerov
Russian violinist, violist, and conductor
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Maxim Vengerov's Degrees
- Bachelors Violin Performance Moscow Conservatory
- Masters Violin Performance Royal Academy of Music
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Maxim Alexandrovich Vengerov is a Soviet-born Israeli violinist, violist, and conductor. Classic FM has called him "one of the greatest violinists in the world". Biography Vengerov was born in Chelyabinsk, the only child of Aleksandr and Larisa Borisovna, oboist and orphanage children's choir director respectively, and is Jewish. He sang in his mother's choir from the age of three. He began studying the violin at age five with Galina Turchaninova. Upon meeting him, she asked: "Do you have strength in these hands?" The five-year-old punched her in the stomach as hard as he could. He said years later: "Fortunately, she was in a good mood that day, and she accepted me as a student."
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