Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music has announced that Victor Yampolsky, the school's Carol F. and Arthur L. Rice Jr. Professor in Music Performance, will
Born in Russia, Shindarov began his violin studies with Piotr Stolyarsky — who also taught Misha Elman, Nathan Milstein, and David Oistrakh. Shindarov later received
Legendary Soviet-born violinist, violist and conductor Igor Oistrakh was born in 1931 in Odessa, Ukraine.
After being introduced to the violin by his father, David Oistrakh,