Itzhak Perlman
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Itzhak Perlman (born August 31, 1945) (in Jaffa, now part of Tel Aviv) is an Israeli violinist and teacher. He is regarded as one of the greatest violinists of the late 20th century, and is certainly the most famous. He began to study in Tel Aviv after hearing the violin being played on the radio. During 1987, he joined the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra for their concerts in Warsaw and Budapest, as well as other Eastern bloc countries. He toured with the IPO in the spring of 1990 for their first-ever performance in the USSR, with concerts in Moscow and Leningrad, and toured with the IPO again in 1994, performing in China and India.
Perlman contracted polio at the age of four. He made a good recovery, learning to walk with the use of crutches. Today, he generally uses crutches for mobility and plays the violin while seated.
Perlman studied at the Academy of Music in Tel Aviv before moving to the United States to study at the Juilliard School. He made his debut at Carnegie Hall in 1963. Soon he began to tour extensively. In addition to an extensive recording career, he has made occasional guest appearances on American television, starting in the 1970s on shows such as The Tonight Show and Sesame Street, as well as playing at a number of functions at the White House.
Perlman has been a soloist for a number of movie scores, notably the score of Schindler's List (1993) by John Williams, which subsequently won an Academy Award for Best Score. More recently, he was the violin soloist for Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), along with cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
While primarily a solo artist, Perlman has performed with a number of other notable musicians, including with Yo-Yo Ma, Jessye Norman, and Yuri Temirkanov at the 150th anniversary celebration of Tchaikovsky in Leningrad in December 1990.
As well as playing and recording the classical music for which he is best known, Perlman has also played jazz (including an album made with preeminent jazz pianist Oscar Peterson); and klezmer. Recently, he has also begun to conduct, taking the post of Principal Guest Conductor at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
Perlman has received many honors, including Kennedy Center Honors in 2003.
Perlman plays on the famous Soil Stradivarius violin.
Itzhak Perlman resides in New York City with his wife, Toby. In 1995, they founded the "Perlman Music Program"[link] in Shelter Island, New York, offering gifted young string players a summer residential course in chamber music.
Performances
Perlman played selections from the musical scores of the movies nominated for "Best Original Score" at the 73rd Academy Awards (with Yo-Yo Ma) and at the 78th Academy Awards.Awards and recognitions
Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance:- Daniel Barenboim & Itzhak Perlman for Brahms: The Three Violin Sonatas (1991)
- Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lynn Harrell & Itzhak Perlman for Beethoven: The Complete Piano Trios (1988)
- Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lynn Harrell & Itzhak Perlman for Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A Minor (1982)
- Itzhak Perlman & Pinchas Zukerman for Music for Two Violins (Moszkowski: Suite For Two Violins/Shostakovich: Duets/Prokofiev: Sonata for Two Violins) (1981)
- Itzhak Perlman & Vladimir Ashkenazy for Beethoven: Sonatas for Violin and Piano (1979)
Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra)
Grammy Award for Best Classical Album
Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical
References
[Biography in the World Concert Artist directory]
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