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Maxim Vengerov

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Maxim Alexandrovich VengerovTemplate:Efn (Template:Langx; born 20 August 1974) is a Soviet-born Israeli violinist, violist, and conductor. Classic FM has called him "one of the greatest violinists in the world".<ref name="CFM">Template:Cite news</ref>

Vengerov was born in Novosibirsk, the only child of Aleksandr and Larisa Borisovna, an oboist and orphanage children's choir director, respectively. He began his musical journey early, singing in his mother's choir at the age of three and starting violin lessons at five with Galina Turchaninova.

At age 10, Vengerov won the 1984 International Karol Lipiński and Henryk Wieniawski Young Violin Player Competition, marking the start of his career. He subsequently studied with Zakhar Bron, following him from the Soviet Union to the Royal Academy of Music in London and then to the Musikhochschule Lübeck in Germany. In 1990, Vengerov won the International Carl Flesch Competition, securing a recording contract with Teldec and launching his international career.

Vengerov moved to Israel with his family in 1990, continuing his studies at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. In 2006, he founded the Musicians of Tomorrow school in northern Israel. His career also includes contributions as a conductor and educator, serving as the first chief conductor of the Menuhin Festival Gstaad Orchestra and holding professorships at institutions like the Royal College of Music in London. He has received numerous awards, including a Grammy and multiple Echo Music Prizes, and plays on the 1727 "ex-Kreutzer" Stradivarius violin.

Early lifeEdit

Vengerov was born in Novosibirsk, the only child of Aleksandr and Larisa Borisovna, oboist and orphanage children's choir director respectively, and is Jewish.<ref name=from>"From prodigy to superstar; Virtuoso violinist Maxim Vengerov puts his success down to his upbringing as a Jewish boy in the heart of Russia.. With celebrations of his 40 years as a performer on ice, he talked to Jessica Duchen about his career," The Jewish Chronicle.</ref><ref name="Hamilton"/> He sang in his mother's choir from the age of three.<ref name="auto4">Todd Brewster (2011). 21st Century Violinists, Vol. 1.</ref> He began studying the violin at age five with Galina Turchaninova.<ref name="auto5">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="auto6">Template:Cite news</ref> Upon meeting him, she asked: "Do you have strength in these hands?"<ref name="auto5"/> The five-year-old punched her in the stomach as hard as he could.<ref name="auto5"/> He said years later: "Fortunately, she was in a good mood that day, and she accepted me as a student."<ref name="auto5"/>

Lessons went badly at first.<ref name="auto6"/><ref name="auto2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Turchaninova was very strict.<ref name="auto6"/><ref name="auto2"/> At one point, Vengerov stubbornly refused to play for her for five straight lessons.<ref name="auto3">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="auto6"/><ref name="auto2"/> She told his mother that she was dismissing him as a student.<ref name="auto6"/><ref name="auto2"/> His mother began to cry, and upon seeing that, Vengerov picked up his violin and played 17 assigned pieces from memory without interruption.<ref name="auto3"/><ref name="auto6"/><ref name="auto2"/> Even though he had refused to play at his lessons, he had been practicing, with the encouragement of Natalie Gottlieb, a fellow student he has often called his inspiration.<ref name="auto6"/><ref name="auto2"/> Turchaninova agreed to continue his lessons, saying: "Very well. A violinist like Maxim is born only once in a hundred years."<ref name="auto6"/><ref name="auto2"/>

At age 10, Vengerov won the 1984 International Karol Lipiński and Henryk Wieniawski Young Violin Player Competition in Lublin, Poland. Also that year, he recorded on the Russian label Melodiya, on LP stereo.<ref name=from/> At age 11, as part of the Tchaikovsky Competition opening concert, he recorded again on LP, but digital.<ref name=from/> He then went to London, where he recorded his first CD, for Biddulph Records.<ref name=from/>

For the next five years, Vengerov studied with Zakhar Bron, who in 1987 left the Soviet Union to teach at the Royal Academy of Music in London. When Bron relocated to the Musikhochschule Lübeck in Germany, Vengerov followed.<ref name="Hamilton"/> In 1990, Vengerov won the International Carl Flesch Competition,<ref name=from/> which led to a recording contract with Teldec and the launch of his international career.

Adult careerEdit

Vengerov moved to Israel with his parents and grandmother in 1990, when he was 16.<ref name="auto">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> There, he studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance.<ref name="auto"/> He has said that Israel "is in my genes" and that his "heart and soul belong to Israel."<ref name="auto"/> He goes to Israel whenever it is experiencing a conflict, saying: "I feel I’m a soldier with my rifle in my violin and bow. This tradition is from my predecessors. Isaac Stern used to do the same."<ref name=from/> In 1992, Vengerov performed Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 3 at the Salzburg Festival under Trevor Pinnock.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2006, he founded a music school in the north of Israel, Musicians of Tomorrow, run by a former first violinist of the Israel Philharmonic.<ref name=from/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He has a home in Migdal, Israel, near Lake Kinneret.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He has also played in a number of events commemorating the Holocaust.<ref name=from/>

In 1997, Vengerov became the first classical musician to be appointed an International Goodwill Ambassador by UNICEF,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> performing for children in Uganda, Thailand, and Kosovo. Playing by Heart, an American television production on NBC about Vengerov's meetings with young musicians during his master classes, screened at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. He later took a two-year course in Baroque violin performance practice and repertoire.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2005, he injured his right shoulder in a weightlifting accident, and while he recovered, he developed his interest and skill in conducting.<ref name="auto3"/><ref name="auto1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He had surgery on the shoulder and a year of rehabilitation.<ref name="auto1"/>

In 2010, Vengerov was appointed the first chief conductor of the Menuhin Festival Gstaad Orchestra. He continued his conducting studies with Yuri Simonov, and graduated with a diploma of excellence from the Ippolitov-Ivanov State Musical Pedagogical Institute in 2014. Vengerov then enrolled in a further two-year program of opera conducting. His work with contemporary composers includes premiering Qigang Chen's violin concerto La Joie de la souffrance.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

During 2019–20, Vengerov was artist-in-residence with the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra.<ref name="Barbican">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He is Ambassador and Visiting Professor at the Menuhin Music Academy in Switzerland (IMMA) and Polonsky Visiting Professor of Violin at the Royal College of Music, London.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Aside from teaching, Vengerov has also served on numerous competition juries, including the Donatella Flick Conducting Competition, the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists, and also as chair of the Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in 2011 and 2016. In 2013, he conducted the finals of the Montreal International Violin Competition.

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InstrumentEdit

Vengerov performs on the late-period 1727 "ex-Kreutzer" Stradivarius violin, made just after the "Golden Period" of Stradivarius violins and previously owned by Rodolphe Kreutzer, to whom Beethoven's 9th Violin Sonata was dedicated.<ref name="Clark">Template:Cite news</ref> On 1 April 1998, Vengerov purchased the violin from Christie's auction house with aid from patroness Japanese Countess Yoko Nagae Ceschina and violin dealer Haim Lazarov, for £947,500.<ref name="Duchen"/>

Personal lifeEdit

In 2011, Vengerov married Olga Gringolts, sister of the violinist Ilya Gringolts and an art historian. The couple have two daughters and one son.<ref name="Sweeting">Template:Cite news</ref> The family resides in Monaco.<ref name="Duchen">Template:Cite news</ref>

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