Violinist, born in Tel Aviv, Israel. Crippled by polio in childhood, he took up the violin with enthusiasm and made his public debut at age nine. Four years later he went to New York to study at Juilliard, where his teachers were Ivan Galamian and Dorothy Delay. After winning first prize in the Leventritt Competition in 1964, he entered the highest rank of international violin soloists. The combination of his brilliance in the standard repertoire, with occasional forays into the moderns, and his engaging personality made him one of the most popular soloists of his time.
Itzhak Perlman (born August 31, 1945 in Jaffa) is an Israeli virtuoso violinist and teacher.
Biography
He began to study in Tel Aviv after hearing the violin being played on the radio.
Perlman contracted polio at the age of four.
Perlman studied at the Academy of Music in Tel Aviv before moving to the United States to study at the Juilliard School with Ivan Galamian and Dorothy DeLay.
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);
Perlman plays on the famous Soil Stradivarius violin, considered to be the finest violin made during Stradivari's "golden period."
In recent years, Perlman has also begun to conduct, taking the post of Principal Guest Conductor at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
In 2003, Mr. Perlman was named the holder of the Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation Chair in Violin Studies at the Juilliard School, succeeding his teacher, Dorothy DeLay.
Itzhak Perlman resides in New York City with his wife, Toby.
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
Leventritt Competition - Winner (1964)
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 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(s) Performance (with orchestra)
Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra)
Grammy Award for Best Classical Album
Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical
Kennedy Center Honors in 2003
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