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Itzhak Perlman, violin Rohan De Silva, piano
Thursday April 2, 2009 8pm
For the first time ever, the world’s reigning virtuoso of the violin - Itzhak Perlman – will take center stage at The Grand 1894 Opera House for one performance only (date/time TBA). Combining Perlman’s flawless technique and irrepressible joy for making music with the elegantly intimate setting of The Grand, audiences will surely experience a “matchless evening of artist-audience communication.” Sponsored in part by the Lyda Kempner Quinn Fund for the Performing Arts, the Adolf and Kaethe Wechsler Foundation and Texas Commission on the Arts, Perlman enjoys superstar status rarely afforded a classical musician. Beloved for his charm and humanity as well as his talent, he has come to be recognized by audiences all over the world who respond to his faultless skill and remarkable artistry.
Itzhak Perlman has been honored with four Emmy Awards, most recently for the PBS documentary Fiddling for the Future, a film about the Perlman Summer Music Program and his work as a teacher and conductor in that program. His previous Emmy Award recognized his dedication to Klezmer music, as featured in the PBS television special In the Fiddler’s House.
Subsequent Klezmer tours have included concerts in Mexico, at the Hollywood Bowl and at major North American summer festivals.
Perlman’s recordings regularly appear on the best-seller charts and have won fifteen Grammy Awards. During the past two years Perlman has also appeared on the conductor’s podium and through this medium he is further delighting his audiences. He has appeared as conductor and soloist with the Chicago Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Pittsburgh, Seattle and Toronto symphonies; at the Ravinia and OK MOZART festivals, with the St. Paul and New York chamber orchestras, and with the Israel Philharmonic and the English Chamber Orchestra. In the 2000-2001 season his conducting debuts include engagements with Boston and San Francisco symphonies, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
One of Perlman’s proudest achievements was his collaboration with film score composer John Williams in Steven Spielberg’s Academy Award-winning film Schindler’s List in which he performed the violin solos. His presence on stage, on camera and in personal appearances of all kinds, speaks eloquently on behalf of the disabled and his devotion to their cause is an integral part of his life.
Thoroughly enhanced by the acoustical vibrancy and the classic, old-world intimacy of The Grand, this unrivaled performance promises to leave you in awe of Perlman’s mastery of the violin.
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