Isaac Stern
This article is about the American violinist. For the accountant to Oskar Schindler, see Itzhak Stern. For the early Massachusetts settler, see Isaac Stearns. Stern at his 60th birthday concert at Lincoln Center, 1980 Isaac Stern (21 July 1920 – 22 September 2001) was an American violinist. [1] Contents 1 Biography 2 Music career 3 Ties to Israel 4 Instruments 5 Awards and commemoration 6 Discography 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External links Biography Isaac Stern in 1975 The son of Solomon and Clara Stern, [2] Isaac Stern was born in Kremenets, Poland (now Ukraine), into a Jewish family. He was 14 months old when his family moved to San Francisco in 1921. He received his first music lessons from his mother. In 1928, he enrolled at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he studied until 1931 before going on to study privately with Louis Persinger. [3] He returned to the San Francisco Conservatory to study fo...