This is a hand drawn and painted watercolor inpired by the violinst Maxim Vengerov. Vengerov was born to Aleksandr and Larissa Vengerov, a Jewish family in Novosibirsk. Both his parents were musicians - his mother, a singer, was the director of a children’s orphanage, while his father was the first oboist of the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. At age 5, he received his first violin lessons from Galina Turtschaninova. Around age 7, he went to Moscow with his grandparents and teacher to study at The Central Special Music School, a specialist school affiliated with the Tchaikovsky Conservatory. At age 10, after his grandfather became ill, the family returned to Novosibirsk, where Maxim studied with Zakhar Bron. He won the Junior Wieniawski violin competition at this time.[1] At age 11, he played at the opening concert of the Eighth International Tchaikovsky Competition. When Bron left Russia in 1987 to teach at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM), Vengerov and his mother followed him there, and did so again after Bron moved to Lübeck to open a school there.[2] In 1990, Vengerov and his family emigrated to Israel[3], where his father continued his profession as an orchestral oboist. Vengerov took Israeli citizenship and served brief duty in the Israeli Army.