Maxim Vengerov takes a teaching job
mainOnce the most sought-after solo violinist, Vengerov signed on today (pictured) as a professor at the Salzburg Mozarteum University. The post, it is stipulated, is being financed externally.
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Downhill and depressing comes to mind.
Interesting article (link). They go into detail about who is paying and the legal troubles this “economic baron of Switzerland” and his company have had.
Anyway, maybe (gasp!) he’s a good teacher. Maybe he got tired of the life of a touring soloist.
In Europe many leading soloists also have teaching positions. Christian Tetzlaff, Tabea Zimmermann, Jörg Widmann, András Schiff all do, for example. It’s very common.
Yes – quite common in the US too.
Very beautiful city. The only problem with it is the Austrians.
A while ago I saw him give a masterclass at Royal Academy of Music in London where he has been visiting professor for some time. It was insightful, good-humoured and focused on the music to the exclusion of everything else. He’ll probably do well in his new post.
One can also view the teaching method as some of the worst sort to come down the pike.Not so much
as teaching as it is playing to the crowd.
A nice announcement on his todays’ 45 birthday!
Maxim Vengerov had an unusual playing posture when I saw him 20 years ago at a CSO rehearsal, awaiting his entrance relaxed, feet apart like Isaac Stern, arms straight down at his side, then whipping his violin up very high, arching backward and chin up (no rest). He’s been conducting and has had some physical problems, I’ve read.
Later that season when he played Shostakovich seated in a quartet with CSO concertmaster Sam Magad as second violin, Yuri Bashmet, and Rostropovich, his osture wasn’t unusual.
Another violinist of unusual stance is Nicolai Znaider, who is also doing some conducting. He looks too tall to play the violin, as if he can barely reach it down there.
Many violinists take up teaching if they tire of touring and want a steady job and settled home.
I seem to recall that Barbara Bonney retired quite early from public performance and she too, I believe began teaching at the Salzburg Mozarteum
I hope he doesn’t retire from the concert platform, as he has many playing years ahead of him.
Even Itzhak Perlman who is in his seventies with his physical problems still gives the occasional performance coupled with conducting and teaching.
The violin world needs a good house cleaning from
the technically proficient schlock artists who pass
themselves off as musicians and have turned the
art into circus performances..When they begin to
bore as fiddle players many turn to teaching and
conducting or contest judges thus keeping their
dreary world going.
Yes, Perlman just played Bruch’s G-ninor cncerto at Ravinia Festival.
Imagine in the future when Yuja gets a teaching post. Slipped disc would turned into 1812 overture.