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Maxim Vengerov (Maxim Alexandrovich Vengerov) was born on 20 August, 1974 in Novosibirsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, is an Israeli violinist, violist, and conductor. Discover Maxim Vengerov's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 49 years old?

Popular As Maxim Alexandrovich Vengerov
Occupation Musician Conductor Professor
Age 49 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 20 August 1974
Birthday 20 August
Birthplace Novosibirsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality Russia

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His wife is Olga Gringolts (m. 2011)

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Children Yelizaveta Vengerova, Polina Vengerova

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1974

Maxim Alexandrovich Vengerov (Максим Александрович Венгеров; 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".

Vengerov was born in Novosibirsk, 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."

Lessons went badly at first.

Turchaninova was very strict.

At one point, Vengerov stubbornly refused to play for her for five straight lessons.

She told his mother that she was dismissing him as a student.

His mother began to cry, and upon seeing that, Vengerov picked up his violin and played 17 assigned pieces from memory without interruption.

Even though he had refused to play at his lessons, he had been practicing.

Turchaninova agreed to continue his lessons, saying: "Very well. A violinist like Maxim is born only once in a hundred years."

1984

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.

At age 11, as part of the Tchaikovsky Competition opening concert, he recorded again on LP, but digital.

He then went to London, where he recorded his first CD, for Biddulph Records.

1987

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.

1990

In 1990, Vengerov won the International Carl Flesch Competition, which led to a recording contract with Teldec and the launch of his international career.

Vengerov moved to Israel with his parents and grandmother in 1990, when he was 16.

There, he studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance.

He has said that Israel "is in my genes" and that his "heart and soul belong to Israel."

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."

1997

In 1997, Vengerov became the first classical musician to be appointed an International Goodwill Ambassador by UNICEF, performing for children in Uganda, Thailand, and Kosovo.

1999

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.

2005

In 2005, he injured his right shoulder in a weightlifting accident, and while he recovered, he developed his interest and skill in conducting.

He had surgery on the shoulder and a year of rehabilitation.

2006

In 2006, Vengerov founded a music school in the north of Israel, Musicians of Tomorrow, run by a former first violinist of the Israel Philharmonic.

He has a home in Migdal, Israel, near Lake Kinneret.

He has also played in a number of events commemorating the Holocaust.

2010

In 2010, Vengerov was appointed the first chief conductor of the Menuhin Festival Gstaad Orchestra.

2014

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.

2019

During 2019–20, Vengerov was artist-in-residence with the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra.

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.