Original: 1984 saw the 10-year-old Maxim go abroad for the first time ; in Lublin , Poland , he won the 1st prize at International Karol Lipi ski and Henryk Wieniawski Young Violin Player Competition ( years later , he recalled , '' I thought Poland was somewhere at the end of the world .
Simplified: In 2005 , Vengerov took a nine-month break from his solo career , during which he learned jazz improvisation and the electric violin .