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Itzhak Perlman

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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.

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Itzhak Perlman (né le 31 août 1945 à Tel Aviv) est un violoniste et professeur de musique israélien. Il est considéré comme l'un des plus grands violonistes du XXe siècle et du XXIe siècle.

Perlman a contracté la poliomyélite à l'âge de quatre ans, ce qui l'a condamné à marcher avec des béquilles et l'oblige à jouer du violon uniquement en position assise.

Il étudia d'abord à l'Académie de Musique «Choulamit» de Jaffa avant de partir pour les États-Unis pour étudier à la Juilliard School avec Ivan Galamian. Il fit assez vite ses débuts au Carnegie Hall en 1963.

Par la suite, Perlman voyage beaucoup. Il effectue de nombreux enregistrements, et à partir des années 1970 commence à apparaître dans des émissions de télévision telles que The Tonight Show et 1, rue Sésame, et joue aussi à maintes occasions à la Maison-Blanche. Entre les années 1980 et le début des années 1990, ses apparitions le mardi et jeudi soir avec l'Orchestre philharmonique de Los Angeles et le récital du mercredi soir «Virtuoso Series» furent de grands moments de la saison d'été du Hollywood Bowl.

En 1987, il s'associe à l'Orchestre philharmonique d'Israël pour ses concerts à Varsovie et Budapest, ainsi que dans d'autres pays de l'Est. Il le rejoint à nouveau en 1990 pour jouer en Chine et en Inde.

Il effectue une solide carrière dans l'enseignement, et donne des cours privés et magistraux de violon et de musique de chambre à travers le monde. Il est actuellement le titulaire de la Dorothy Richard Starling Chair of Violin Studies à la Juilliard School, poste qu'occupait auparavant son professeur, Dorothy DeLay.

Perlman a également joué comme soliste pour de nombreuses musiques de films (Fantasia 2000), en particulier des partitions de John Williams, comme celle de La Liste de Schindler, qui a reçu l'Oscar de la meilleure musique de film, et plus récemment en compagnie du violoncelliste Yo-Yo Ma celle de Mémoires d’une geisha. Il joue son propre rôle dans Tout le monde dit I love you de Woody Allen.

Perlman a joué avec de nombreux autres musiciens célèbres. Parmi eux: Jacqueline du Pré, Daniel Barenboim, Pinchas Zuckermann, Yo-Yo Ma, Jessye Norman, et Iouri Temirkanov (à l'occasion du 150e anniversaire de Tchaikovsky); mais aussi Frederica von Stade, Rudolf Firkušný, et John Williams.

En plus de jouer et d'enregistrer de la musique classique - l'activité pour laquelle il est devenu célèbre -, Perlman pratique également le jazz et le klezmer. Récemment, il a abordé la direction d'orchestre, au poste de chef invité principal de l'Orchestre symphonique de Détroit.

Perlman a reçu de nombreuses distinctions, telle que le Kennedy Center Honors en 2003.

Sa version des Vingt-quatre Caprices pour violon de Paganini figure parmi ses enregistrements les plus connus.

Perlman joue sur le fameux Soil, un Stradivarius de 1714 que lui a cédé Yehudi Menuhin, considéré comme le plus fin des Stradivarius.

Le 20 janvier 2009, il joue en compagnie de Gabriela Montero, Yo-Yo Ma et Anthony McGill lors de l'investiture de Barack Obama. Il s'agissait de l'œuvre Air and Simple Gifts, composée par John Williams pour cette occasion.

Source: Article "Itzhak Perlman" de Wikipédia en français, soumis à la licence CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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