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Prokofiev.Sonata No. 2 in D. Major for Violin and Piano Op. 94

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ITZHAK PERLMAN

Undeniably the reigning virtuoso of the violin, Itzhak Perlman enjoys superstar status rarely afforded a classical musician. Beloved for his charm and humanity as well as his talent, he is treasured by audiences throughout the world who respond not only to his remarkable artistry, but also to his irrepressible joy of making music. In 2009, Mr. Perlman was honored to take part in the Inauguration of President Barack Obama, premiering a piece written for the occasion by John Williams and performing with clarinetist Anthony McGill, pianist Gabriela Montero and cellist Yo-Yo Ma. In 2003 the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts granted Mr. Perlman a Kennedy Center Honor celebrating his distinguished achievements and contributions to the cultural and educational life of our nation.

In 2007, he performed at the State Dinner for Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, hosted by President George W. Bush and Mrs. Bush at the White House.

Born in Israel in 1945, Mr. Perlman completed his initial training at the Academy of Music in Tel Aviv. He came to New York and was propelled into the international arena with an appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1958. Following his studies at the Juilliard School with Ivan Galamian and Dorothy DeLay, Mr. Perlman won the prestigious Leventritt Competition in 1964, which led to a burgeoning worldwide career. Since then, Itzhak Perlman has appeared with every major orchestra and in recitals and festivals around the world.

Mr. Perlman is a frequent presence on the conductor’s podium.

He has performed as conductor with the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony,

National Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the symphony orchestras of San Francisco, Dallas, Houston, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Montreal and Toronto, as well as at the Ravinia and OK Mozart festivals.

He was Music Advisor of the St. Louis Symphony from 2002 to 2004 where he made regular conducting appearances, and he was Principal Guest Conductor of the Detroit Symphony from 2001 to 2005. This season, he conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic, as well as the San Francisco, Cincinnati, Baltimore and Seattle symphonies. Internationally, Mr. Perlman has conducted the Berlin Philharmonic, Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Philharmonic, the English Chamber Orchestra, and the Israel Philharmonic.

Itzhak Perlman has been honored with four Emmy Awards, most recently for the PBS documentary Fiddling for the Future, a film about the Perlman Music Program and his work as a teacher and conductor. In 2004, PBS aired a special entitled Perlman in Shanghai which chronicled a historic and unforgettable visit of the Perlman Music Program to China, featuring interaction between American and Chinese students.

Mr. Perlman’s third Emmy Award recognized his dedication to Klezmer music, as profiled in the 1995 PBS television special In the Fiddler’s House, which was filmed in Poland and featured him performing with four of the world’s finest Klezmer bands.

Mr. Perlman has entertained and enlightened millions of TV viewers of all ages on popular shows as diverse as The Late Show with David Letterman, Sesame Street, the PBS series The Frugal Gourmet, the Tonight show, the Grammy awards telecasts, and numerous Live From Lincoln Center broadcasts, including Itzhak Perlman | Overture Center

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The Juilliard School: Celebrating 100 Years and PBS specials, including A Musical Toast and Mozart by the Masters. In 2008, Mr. Perlman joined renowned chef Jacques Pépin on Artist’s Table to discuss the relationship between the culinary and musical arts. Mr. Perlman was the narrator of Visions of Israel in WLIW New York’s acclaimed Visions series, which premiered on PBS in 2008.

In 1994, Mr. Perlman hosted the U.S. broadcast of the Three Tenors, Encore! live from Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. In 2006, a worldwide audience in the hundreds of millions saw Mr. Perlman perform on the 78th Annual Academy Awards. One of Mr. Perlman’s proudest achievements is 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. He can also be heard as the violin soloist on the soundtrack of Zhang Yimou’s film Hero (music by Tan Dun) and Rob Marshall’s Memoirs of a Geisha (music

by John Williams).

In 2008, Itzhak Perlman was honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award for excellence in the recording arts. His recordings regularly appear on the best-seller charts and have garnered 15 Grammy Awards. His most recent releases include an all-Mozart recording with the Berlin Philharmonic (EMI) with Mr. Perlman performing as both soloist and conductor and a recording for Deutsche Grammophon with Mr. Perlman conducting the Israel Philharmonic. Other recordings reveal Mr. Perlman’s devotion to education, including Concertos from my Childhood with the Juilliard

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Billy Elliot the Musical is a glorious celebration of dance—all kinds of dance.

Tony Award®–winning choreographer Peter Darling took a story about an aspiring ballet dancer and expanded the palette to one full of all kinds of movement.

This movement—ranging from walking to highly choreographed tap, hip hop, jazz, ballet, acrobatics, and folk dancing—is used as a form of expression.

“I didn’t want to convey that only one form of movement is of value,” says Darling. “I wanted to use as many different forms of movement as possible.”

One key number, “Solidarity,” exemplifies that fusion of movement. Finding a way to inLiam Mower as Billy. Photo by David Scheinmann clude the miners in the dance numbers posed a special challenge, as they are characters who are By moving directly from the tear-jerking scene where Billy reveals to his dance teacher, Mrs. resolutely opposed to men dancing.

“I started to think about when men dance. Wilkinson, a letter his mother wrote him before They do social dancing and folk dancing. she died, to “Born to Boogie,” a jazzy up-tempo There’s a tradition of male dancing in Russian number, Darling upends our expectations.

Mrs. Wilkinson gives Billy a chance to refolk dance, Eastern European folk dance, Appalachian clog folk dance,” Darling said. “All ally explore how he can have fun with his danchuman movement—walking, running, jumping, ing rather than just concentrating on technique.

“In the number, Billy starts to do Michael and falling—is dance. If someone corrals it and gives it form, it’s dance. So it was fine to have Jackson moonwalking, and she starts to do a few them dance within the context of social dance. It old steps,” Darling said. “It’s a conversation, a fun dance, which is what jazz is.” was not fine for them to do ballet.”

Billy Elliot does feature ballet, but not alThe development of dance as movement and ways in the traditional sense. Darling infused as a celebration within the show is key.

“We’re celebrating dance; dance is worthy the ballet choreography with contemporary movement—including street dance, hip hop, of celebration and all forms of dance can tell a narrative,” Darling said. “Ballet can tell a narra- and acrobatics. Billy shows off these talents in the number “Electricity” at The Royal Ballet tive. Tap can tell a narrative.”

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Tap fuels the show at “The idea is that The least as much as, if not ‘Billy Elliot’ is very much a musical, it’s not Royal Ballet is looking more than, ballet. a ballet. - Peter Darling, choreographer for young dancers with “Tap is rhythmically potential, who are pheexciting and an expresnomenal movers,” says sive kind of dance,” says Darling. “And Billy shows that he’s a phenomDarling. “It’s synonymous with show business and musicals. Billy Elliot is very much a musi- enal mover who can also turn three pirouettes.”

That number underscores the beauty and vical; it’s not a ballet.”

Darling uses tap in multiple forms in the tality of ballet.

“Ballet can be one of the most thrilling show—from the exuberant show-stopping finale things you’ll ever see, because of the amount of to the dark and powerful “Angry Dance,” Billy’s response when his father orders him to give up training, technique, and strength required to do it,” Darling said. ballet and he needs an outlet for his anger.

The finale looks back at a time when musi“Tap actually lends itself extremely well to anger,” says Darling. “The ‘Angry Dance,’ in a cals often closed with a big production number.

“The finale is supposed to be completely difway, is about Billy wanting to stop dancing. But ferent from the rest of the show,” says Darling. the rhythm in his head keeps on going. If you “There’s a comparison to be made to the movie want to stop your feet from moving, you slam them to the floor. So that’s where the idea came Slumdog Millionaire, which is about something hard, gritty, and realistic. And then at the end from: Billy would slam his feet to the floor, and there would be a rhythmic element to it. And it they go into a celebration of Bollywood movies. The idea on my part is that at the end of the went from there.” show, you acknowledge the genre that the show The dances in Billy Elliot advance the narrative or reveal something about the characters. is part of, musical theater.”

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Orchestra under Lawrence Foster (EMI) and Marita and her Heart’s Desire, composed and conducted

by Bruce Adolphe (Telarc). Other recordings over the past decade have included a Grammy-nominated live recording with pianist Martha Argerich performing Beethoven and Franck Sonatas (EMI); Cinema Serenade featuring popular hits from movies with John Williams conducting (Sony); A la Carte, a recording of short violin pieces with orchestra (EMI) and In the Fiddler’s House, a celebration of Klezmer Music (EMI) that formed the basis of the PBS television special. In 2004, EMI released The Perlman Edition, a limited-edition 15-CD box set featuring many of his finest EMI recordings as well as newly compiled material and RCA Red Seal released a CD titled Perlman reDISCOVERED which includes material recorded in 1965 by a young Itzhak Perlman.

Mr. Perlman has a long association with the Israel Philharmonic. In November of 1987 he joined the IPO for concerts in Warsaw and Budapest, representing the first performances by this orchestra and soloist in Eastern bloc countries. He again made history as he joined the orchestra for its first visit to the Soviet Union in 1990, and was cheered by audiences in Moscow and Leningrad. This visit was captured on a PBS documentary entitled Perlman in Russia which won an Emmy. In 1994 Mr. Perlman joined the Israel Philharmonic for their first visits to China and India.

Over the past decade Mr. Perlman has become more actively involved in educational activities. He has taught full time at the Perlman Music Program each summer since it was founded and currently holds the Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation Chair at the Juilliard School.

Numerous publications and

institutions have paid tribute to Itzhak Perlman for the unique place he occupies in the artistic and humanitarian fabric of our times.

Harvard, Yale, Brandeis, Roosevelt, Yeshiva and Hebrew universities are among the institutions which have awarded him honorary degrees.

He was awarded an honorary doctorate and a centennial medal on the occasion of Juilliard’s 100th commencement ceremony in 2005.

President Reagan honored Mr. Perlman with a Medal of Liberty in 1986, and in December 2000, President Clinton awarded Mr. Perlman the National Medal of Arts.

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ROHAN DE SILVA, PIANIST Rohan De Silva’s partnerships with violin virtuosos Itzhak Perlman, Cho-Liang Lin, Midori, Joshua Bell, Benny Kim, Kyoko Takezawa, Vadim Repin, Gil Shaham, Nadja SalernoSonnenberg, and Julian Rachlin have led to highly acclaimed performances at recital venues all over the world.

With these and other artists he has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center, Library of Congress, Philadelphia Academy of Music, Ambassador Theater in Los Angeles, Concertgebouw in Amsterda sm, Wigmore Hall in London, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the Mozarteum in Salzburg and La Scala in Milan and Tel-Aviv, Israel. His festival appearances include the Aspen, Interlochen, Manchester, Ravinia and Schleswig-Holstein festivals, the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan, and the Wellington Arts Festival in New Zealand. He performs frequently with Itzhak Perlman and was seen with Mr. Perlman on PBS’ Live from Lincoln Center broadcast in early January 2000. In September 2009, Mr. De Silva performed with Mr. Perlman in Mexico City and in recital at the Moscow Conservatory. Mr. De Silva regularly tours the Far East with Mr. Perlman, and in October 2011, they travel to Asia for performances in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

The 2011-12 season will also see them together in recital across the United States, including stops at Boston’s Symphony Hall, Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, and Washington’s Kennedy Center Concert Hall. Mr. De Silva and Mr. Perlman recently performed at the State Dinner for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, hosted by President George W. Bush and Mrs. Bush at the White House.

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mother, the late Primrose De Silva, and with the late Mary Billimoria. He spent six years at the Royal Academy of Music in London as a student of Hamish Milne, Sydney Griller, and Wilfred Parry. While in London, he received many awards including the Grover Bennett Scholarship, the Christian Carpenter Prize, the Martin Music Scholarship, the Harold Craxton Award for advanced study in England, and, upon his graduation, the Chappell Gold Medal for best overall performance at the Royal Academy. Mr. De Silva was the first recipient of a special Scholarship in the arts from the Presidents Fund of Sri Lanka. This enabled him to enter The Juilliard School, where he received both his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees, studying piano with Martin Canin, chamber music with Felix Galimir, and working closely with violin pedagogue Dorothy DeLay. He was awarded a special prize as Best Accompanist at the 1990 Ninth International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. He received the Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award presented to him by Itzhak Perlman at the 2005 Classical Recording Foundation Awards Ceremony at Carnegie Hall.

Mr. De Silva joined the collaborative arts and chamber music faculty of The Juilliard School in 1991, and in 1992 was awarded honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music. In 2001, he joined the faculty at the Ishikawa Music Academy in Japan, where he gives masterclasses in collaborative piano. Radio and television credits include The Tonight Show with Midori, CNN’s “Showbiz Today”, NHK Television in Japan, National Public Radio, WQXR and WNYC in New York, and Berlin Radio. He has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, CBS/SONY Classical, Collins Classics in London, and RCA Victor.

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