>> jaap van zweden: two... two rooms. >> stahl: for how many people? >> jaap van zweden: four. ney. >> stahl: that sounds poor. >> jaap van zweden: my mother had a little hair shop, very little. and my father was a piano teacher. >> s: t music was in your house growing up. >> jaap van zweden: absolutely. and at the weekends, he played, to make some extra money, with gypsy violinists. and they would come to our little house, and rehearse there. and i told my father, "that's what i want to do." >> stahl: you told him? >> jaap van zweden: yes. >> stahl: he didn't tell you? >> jaap van zweden: no. no, i wanted to do that. i wanted to play the violin. >> stahl: and what jaap wants, he goes after, and tends to get. by eight, he was performing, and a few years later, won a national competition with a full scholarship to juilliard in new york city. he came on his own at 16, but he didn't stay long. the dutch royal concertgebouw orchestra invited him back home to assume the prestigious post of first violinist. he wust years old. he'd been back a year when he discovered something else he