For 17 days at the end of each year, the world’s greatest living concert violinist makes his home in Sarasota.

But Itzhak Perlman doesn’t leave New York behind to sit on a beach. It’s not a vacation. He comes here to teach young musicians during the Perlman Music Program Sarasota Winter Residency.

With a resume that includes 16 Grammys, four Emmys, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Kennedy Center Honor, the 72-year-old Israeli-American icon is always in demand for concert performances. He’s played for presidents, heads of state and the Queen of England.

The thing is, he loves working with students.

“When you teach somebody else, you teach yourself,” Perlman tells Creative Loafing (CL). “And I always tell the kids, never miss an opportunity to teach, on any level. Because it really helps you with your own music-making.”

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Reprinted from the article by reporter, Bill Deyoung for the Creative Loafing Tampa Bay website.

Twenty-two years have passed since Itzhak Perlman made his iconic album of klezmer music, In the Fiddler’s House. The collection of traditional klezmer songs was also filmed as a PBS special, which earned Perlman his third Emmy Award, featuring the reigning violin virtuoso performing in Poland with the world’s finest klezmer musicians. In this live performance, Perlman revisits this meaningful, personal project, featuring music director Hankus Netsky on saxophone and piano, Andy Statman on clarinet and mandolin, members of the Brave Old World and Klezmer Conservatory Band and other special guests.

Established in 2007, Festival of the Arts BOCA was designed to promote the cultural arts and to enrich the quality of life of the residents of Boca Raton, North Broward and Palm Beach County.

Saturday, February 24, 8:00 PM
Concert: Itzhak Perlman – In the Fiddler’s House
A Klezmer Celebration
Mizner Park Amphitheater
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Filmmaker Alison Chernic’s documentary, ‘Itzhak’ will have two screenings at DOC NYC Festival on Thursday, November 16, 2017,The entralling documentary offers a rare glimpse into the life of the greatest living violinist, Itzhak Perlman and features interviews with his family, his friends and colleagues. Wheelchair-bound from childhood polio, he recounts stories of overcoming obstacles with his talent and humor. We follow him in eclectic settings, from performing with Billy Joel to visiting his native land, Israel. The film offers a poignant portrait of an artist seeking to bridge the past and the present and, through his students, the future.

DOC NYC burst upon the scene in 2010 with an inaugural event that was hailed as “ambitious” (New York Times) and “selective but eclectic” (Village Voice). By 2014, DOC NYC had become America’s largest documentary film festival and voted by MovieMaker magazine as one of the “top five coolest documentary film festivals in the world”. Based at the West Village’s IFC Center, Chelsea’s SVA Theater and Bow Tie Chelsea Cinema, the eight-day festival showcases new achievements in documentary film along with panels and conversations. It also seeks to make connections that happen “only in New York.”
In 2016, the festival showcased 200+ films & events, presented by 200+ filmmakers & special guests. Past guests include Hillary Clinton, Emma Watson, Jim Carrey, Thandie Newton, Susan Sarandon, Martin Scorsese, Big Bird, Sarah Polley, Jared Leto, Noam Chomsky, Ricki Lake, Michael Moore, Michel Gondry, Omar Epps, Errol Morris, Oliver Stone, Jonathan Franzen, Kathleen Hanna, Spandau Ballet, Greil Marcus, Grace Lee Boggs, Bela Fleck, Nat Hentoff, Chuck Workman, and The Mekons. Audience attendees have included Harry Belafonte, Rosario Dawson, Fred Armisen, Jim Jarmusch, Michael Stipe, Martha Stewart, Katie Couric, Russell Simmons, Darren Aronofsky, Cornel West, Naomi Watts, among others.

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Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman answer fan questions on Facebook Live backstage at New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) on Saturday, November 18, 2017, 6:30 PM, EST.

Music lovers have been posting dozens of questions on Itzhak Perlman’s Facebook page in anticipation of this rare opportunity to engage with their idols inlcuding:

“Do you have a preferred methods for warming up to get the fingers, wrist and arm reading to perform?
Also any must have scale books for mastering fundamental shifting?”

“How do you think music has changed since the 1960s? And what would you tell the young generation of musicians to motivate them to stay the course of musical inspiration?”

“Any changes for a Rio de Janeiro concert?”

Right after the Facebook Live video the dazzling duo will take the stage at NJPAC beginning at 7:30 PM. BUY TICKETS

Don’t miss two of the greatest violinists of our time – perhaps of all time – in one of the classical season’s hottest tickets! Be there for the dazzling, dueling virtuosity of these two inimitable artists in New Jersey Performing Arts Center on Saturday, November 18, 2017, 7:30 PM.

Though he has already received a GRAMMY� Lifetime Achievement Award, Itzhak Perlman remains a compelling, vital artist, performing today with greater joy than ever before. “His playing has gained in expressivity,” The Los Angeles Times recently wrote.

For more than four decades, Pinchas Zukerman has been a classical phenomenon – as violinist, violist, conductor and chamber musician. “The thing about Zukerman is that he just keeps getting better,” raves The Miami Herald. “He could have rested on his laurels – yet here he (is), more passionate than ever.” Itzhak Perlman. Pinchas Zukerman. violins Program to be announced

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