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Birthday: Aug 31, 1945
Place of Birth: Tel Aviv, Palestine [now Israel]

Itzhak Perlman

Itzhak Perlman (Hebrew: יצחק פרלמן; born August 31, 1945) is an Israeli-American violinist, conductor, and music teacher. Perlman has performed worldwide, and throughout the United States, in venues that have included a State Dinner at the White House honoring Queen Elizabeth II, and at President Barack Obama's inauguration. He has conducted the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Westchester Philharmonic. In 2015, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He has received 16 Grammy Awards, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and four Emmy Awards. Perlman was born in 1945 in Tel Aviv. His parents, Chaim and Shoshana Perlman, were Jewish natives of Poland and had independently emigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel) in the mid-1930s before they met and later married. Perlman contracted polio at age four and has walked using leg braces and crutches since then and plays the violin while seated. As of 2018, he uses crutches or an electric Amigo scooter for mobility. Perlman first became interested in the violin after hearing a classical music performance on the radio. At the age of three, he was denied admission to the Shulamit Conservatory for being too small to hold a violin. He instead taught himself how to play the instrument using a toy fiddle until he was old enough to study with Rivka Goldgart at the Shulamit Conservatory and at the Academy of Music in Tel Aviv (now the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music), where he gave his first recital at age 10. He moved to the U.S. at age 13 to study at the Juilliard School with the violin teacher Ivan Galamian and his assistant Dorothy DeLay. Perlman appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show twice in 1958, and again in 1964, on the same show with the Rolling Stones. He made his debut at Carnegie Hall in 1963 and won the Leventritt Competition in 1964. Soon afterward, he began to tour widely. In addition to an extensive recording and performance career, he has continued to make appearances on television shows such as The Tonight Show and Sesame Street as well as playing at a number of White House functions. Although Perlman has never been billed or marketed as a singer, he sang the role of "Un carceriere" ("a jailer") on a 1981 EMI recording of Puccini's "Tosca" that featured Renata Scotto, Plácido Domingo, and Renato Bruson, with James Levine conducting. He had earlier sung the role in an excerpt from the opera on a 1980 Pension Fund Benefit Concert telecast as part of the Live from Lincoln Center series with Luciano Pavarotti as Cavaradossi and Zubin Mehta conducting the New York Philharmonic. On July 5, 1986, Perlman performed at the New York Philharmonic's tribute to the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty, which was televised live on ABC. The orchestra, conducted by Mehta, performed in Central Park. In 1987, Perlman joined the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) for its concerts in Warsaw and Budapest as well as other cities in Eastern bloc countries. He toured with the IPO in the spring of 1990 for its first-ever performance in the Soviet Union, with concerts in Moscow and Leningrad, and again in 1994, performing in China and India. ... Source: Article "Itzhak Perlman" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Filmography
Movie Cast Year
Small Wonders Self 1996
Perlman in Russia 1992
Visions of Israel Host 2008
Orchestra of Exiles Self 2012
Here Today Himself 2021
Fantasia 2000 Self - Host 2000
Beethoven - Choral Fantasy and Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello & Piano Self (violinist) 2003
A Tribute to Victor Borge Himself 2008
The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow Self 1994
The Trout Violinist 1970
Everyone Says I Love You Self 1996
Music of the Heart Self 1999
We Want the Light Self 2004
Music by John Williams Self - Violinist 2024
A John Williams Celebration Self 2015
Eugene Ormandy / Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky Self 1978
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like Self 2018
Itzhak Self 2017
Tree of Life: A Concert for Peace and Unity Self 2018
Sesame Street | Put Down the Duckie: An All-Star Musical Special Self 1988
Itzhak Perlman: Virtuoso Violinist Self 1978
Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration Self 2019
Beethoven: Triple Concerto And Choral Fantasy Self 1995
Beethoven/Brahms - Violin Concertos (Perlman, Barenboim) Self 1992
Beethoven - Triple Concerto Symphony No. 6 Self - Conductor 2012
Dvorak in Prague: A Celebration Self 1993
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! Self (archive footage) 1994
Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly! 1990
Series Cast Year
Love, Sidney Self 1981
The Kennedy Center Honors Self 1978
The Ed Sullivan Show Self 1948
The Very Best of Victor Borge, Vol. 2 Host 2018
American Masters Self 1986
Le Grand Échiquier Self 1972
Previn and the Pittsburgh Self 1977
Great Performances Self 1971
Before 2024
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson Self 1962
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