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hen Shlomo Mintz
was three years old,
his father, an
amateur violinist, presented
him with a tiny violin in the
hope his boy would take up
the instrument.
Seven years later, Mintz
was a certified child prodigy
violinist making his concerto
debut with the Israel Philhar-
monic, under the baton of
Zubin Mehta. . Not long after,
Mintz was called in to play
with the orchestra when
renowned violinist Itzhak
Perlman became ill.
Now, at 31, Mintz plays
about 100 concert or recital
dates a year, records ex-
clusively on the Deutsche
Grammophon record label
and has just taken over the
music directorship of the
Israel Chamber Orchestra.
As it turns out, Shlomo
Mintz took a liking to the
violin.
"There was pressure; there
is pressure," Mintz says. "I
learned how to cope with
stress a little bit later. The
pressure takes different
shapes and turns. One
develops a certain amount of
discipline with the years!'
Mintz talks of his short, but
illustrious career — as a guest
soloist all over the world and
as an ambitious recording ar-
tist who was the youngest
violinist to record the com-
plete Bach solo sonatas and
partitas — as a series of
episodes that make up a per-
sonal evolution, a continuing
process in which tastes are
constantly being developed
and refined.
The evolution continues 8
p.m. Tuesday when Mintz per-
forms a recital at Temple
Israel in West Bloomfield.
The program will include
Bach's Sonata No. 2 in A Ma-
jor for Violin and Harp-
sichord; Beethoven's Sonata
No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24,
"Spring"; Joseph Suk's Four
Pieces for violin and piano,
Op. 17; and Ravel's Sonata for
Violin and Piano.
Mintz was born in Moscow,
but raised in Tel Aviv, where
his Russian parents settled in
1959. Mintz says he had a
very traditional Jewish upbr-
inging. He attended a
religious school, "just like
any other Israeli boy!'
In Tel Aviv, he studied with
noted Hungarian teacher and
violinist Ilona Feher, and,
following his success with the
Israel Philharmonic, attended

Shlomo Mintz: violinist.

the Juilliard School in New
York. There he studied under
Dorothy DeLay, who had
taught Perlman. Mintz also
worked with violinist Isaac
Stern and counts the master
as his mentor.
While attending Juilliard,
the 17-year-old Mintz found
his way to Carnegie Hall, per-
forming as a soloist with the
Pittsburgh Symphony in
1973.
Mintz's father, Abraham,
died a few years ago; his
mother, Hava, is retired and
living in Tel Aviv, and Mintz
now has a family of his own.
His German-born wife, Cor-
inne, converted to Judaism
before the two were married
in 1983. They have two sons,
Eliav and Sasha.
Family, says Mintz, is an
emotional retreat from work,
and he says it's important to
guide his sons in the direction
of — but not necessarily
toward careers in — classical
music.
"I think it's more important
for them to develop a taste in
music, regardless of whether
they will become profes-
sional," says Mintz. "Good
taste will help them develop
culture-wise. It will put them
up to better understanding
and differentiating good and
not-so-good music — just like
food and other forms of art!'
Of his sons, he says, "They -
both have musical ears. Both
of them know the violin
repertoire; they enjoy it very
much, and they can detect
one composer from another.
But that's not saying much.
The question is, whether
they'll continue or not. Time
will show that!'
Mintz maintains a villa in
the Italian Alps, an apart-
ment in Dusseldorf, where his
wife was born, and a subur-
ban home in Port Jefferson,
Long island.
"My kids are going to
school here (Long Island);

