Alexander Skwortsow, born in Novosibirsk, Siberia in 1944, began his musical studies as a not-so-enthusiastic piano student. His mother, a concert pianist, started teaching her son at the age of six, and for four years supervised his lessons and his practice. Then fate intervened. In a short period of time two significant events occurred in the young artist's life - he was in the audience of Novosibirsk's Philharmonia Hall when a spirited gypsy group performed, and he heard the legendary violinist David Oistrakh.

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