Ax was born in a Polish-Jewish family[2] in Lviv, Ukraine (then in the USSR) to Joachim and Hellen Ax, both Nazi concentration camp survivors. Ax began to study piano at the age of six; his father was his first piano teacher. When he was seven the family moved to Warsaw, Poland (where he studied piano playing at Miodowa school) and then two years later to Winnipeg, Canada where he continued to study music, including as a member of The Junior Musical Club of Winnipeg. In 1961 the family moved to New York City and Ax continued his studies at the Juilliard School under Mieczysław Munz. In 1970 he received his B.A. in French at Columbia University and became an American citizen. In 1973 he won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions. And his father was from Poland and he started piano at the age of five and his mother was his first teacher and he went to juilliard and nyu and Columbia and lived in new York and no we didnt go to camp. Have you tried the sponsors? And his wife went to Columbia Presbyterian medical center.
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