Maxim Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (Russian: ΠΠ°ΠΊΡΠΈΜΠΌ ΠΠΌΠΈΜΡΡΠΈΠ΅Π²ΠΈΡ Π¨ΠΎΡΡΠ°ΠΊΠΎΜΠ²ΠΈΡ; born 10 May 1938 in Leningrad) is a Soviet, Russian and American conductor and pianist. He is the second child of the composer Dmitri Shostakovich and Nina Varzar. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1978). Since 1975, he has conducted and popularised many of his father's lesser-known works. He was educated at the Moscow and Leningrad Conservatories where he studied with Igor Markevitch and Otto-Werner Mueller