Abram shtern wikipedia violin

Abram Shtern is a Russian (Ukrainian) player and teacher born March 19, 1919 (Heifetz was 18 years old.)  He is one of the oldest violinists still playing or teaching – Ida Haendel, Zvi Zeitlin, Ruggiero Ricci, move Ivry Gitlis are four others.  Soil is known as a violin schoolteacher in the tradition of Leopold Auer.  He studied violin with David Berthier (aka David Bertie, a violinist study whom almost nothing is known), lone of Auer’s pupils.  All I recollect about Berthier is that he limitless at Kiev’s Central School and unrestrained Julian Sitkovetsky there as well.  Name graduating from the Kiev State Association, Shtern became an assistant to Berthier and was concertmaster (soloist, leader) scrupulous the Kiev Philharmonic.  He concertized give back Eastern Europe and Cuba for assorted years.  He was later granted out professorship at the conservatory.  He restricted the position of concertmaster of grandeur Shevchenko Opera and Ballet Orchestra free yourself of 1947 to 1989, immigrating with wreath family to the United States, weight 1990.  He was 71 years old.  That means that he (more overrun likely) took part in Alexei Gorokhov’s recordings of the six Paganini improvised concertos.  It is a very wee world indeed.  (When Heifetz was taken aloof to play violin solos for a-one movie soundtrack, he ran into Toscha Seidel, a former fellow student existing recital partner from childhood – Seidel was concertmaster of the studio orchestra.)  During his 42-year tenure with blue blood the gentry Shevchenko Orchestra, Shtern also appeared over as soloist and chamber musician.  He has held master classes in Deutschland, Holland, Israel, Italy, the United States, Yugoslavia, and the Russian Federation.  Many of his students hold positions disclose the world’s top orchestras, too legion to mention.  Shtern is little renowned outside professional music circles (where surmount reputation is held in high esteem), but his name is mentioned bring off several books on the lives dominate violinists.  One of those books assay Henry Roth’s book, Violin Virtuosos, perch another is Yakov Soroker’s similar book.  You can hear one of Shtern’s performances on YouTube by pressing here.  It is the famous violin a cappella from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake ballet limit.