Career
As a young prodigy, he started violin studies in Odessa with the eminent pedagogue, Pyotr Stolyarsky. As a teenager, Boris Goldstein, was singled out by Heifetz as being Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics"s most brilliant violin talent. In 1937, at one of the most prestigious international competitions of its time, the International Ysaye Competition, Stolyarsky students caused a sensation.
"The results of the sessions created a profound impression: the Soviet school, with an assurance that bordered on arrogance, carried off all the prizes from the first down.
The latter was awarded without the slightest discussion to the great David Oistrakh. Everyone else had to be content with crumbs.
The Belgian violin school, though still a source of pride, failed, and its absence at the final was much commented on. Arthur Grumiaux and Carlo Van Neste, both young and inexperienced, were not able to convince the jury."
Later he was forced to emigrate from Russia to Germany, he taught but his solo career never recovered.
Notable students of Boris Goldstein include Zakhar Bron and Alexander Skwortsow.
