‘An Evening with Itzhak Perlman’ is an intimate multi-media evening of music and storytelling featuring Perlman sharing anecdotes from his life and career and performing with his longtime pianist Rohan De Silva.

The program will receive its world premiere on May 11, 2019 in Kansas City at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts’s Helzberg Hall, presented by the Harriman-Jewell Series. The performance, which will mark Perlman’s 12th appearance for the Harriman-Jewell Series since 1971, is sold out.

A tour of the program will commence in the 2019/20 season. Tour dates include:

November 14, 2019: Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State – Eisenhower Auditorium – State College, PA

January 11, 2020: Mondavi Center – Jackson Hall – Davis, CA

January 20, 2020: McCallum Theatre – Palm Desert, CA

January 21, 2020: UCSB Arts & Lectures – Granada Theatre – Santa Barbara, CA

February 29, 2020: Mesa Arts Center – Mesa, AZ

April 25, 2020: State Theatre New Jersey – New Brunswick, NJ

“This new program is the culmination of many years of Itzhak Perlman being urged to share the story of his early years and career through anecdotes, musical pieces and personal photos from his archives,” says Executive Producer,Charlotte Lee, Founder of Primo Artists. “It will be a first-ever experience for audiences to learn more about the extraordinary 13-year-old boy who became a household name over 60 years ago. I am delighted that we will take this unique and special program to audiences around the world very soon.”

A meeting of the masters!

Blockbuster soloists Itzhak Perlman and Evgeny Kissin unite for an evening of chamber music on a grand scale in Boston, MA, New York, NY and Washington, DC. The eminence of the performers is matched by the prominence of the repertoire, including timeless favorites of the violin repertoire by Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms.

Monday, April 21, 2019: Boston Symphony Hall TICKETS
Thursday, April 25, 2019: Carnegie Hall TICKETS
Sunday, April 28, 2019: Kennedy Center Concert Hall TICKETS

Itzhak Perlman attended a recent performance of ‘Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish at Stage 42 in New York City, NY.

A New York Times Critics’ Pick, Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish “strikes a deep emotional chord” and “offers a kind of authenticity no other American Fiddler ever has” (The New York Times).

With direction by Oscar and Tony Award®-winner Joel Grey and the Yiddish translation by Shraga Friedman, this production “speaks to us all” (Newsday). It has been hailed as “a richer, deeper interpretation” by The Wall Street Journal, “a mitzvah” by Time Out New York, and AM New York gives it four stars, calling Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish “perfect.”

Harold Prince, the legendary and original producer of Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway (1965 Winner of 9 Tony® Awards, including Best Musical) says, “If you have seen Fiddler before, you must see this production because it will make you feel you are seeing Fiddler for the first time.”

One of the most celebrated musicals of all time, Fiddler on the Roof, based on Sholem Aleichem’s classic Yiddish stories, features music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, with the original New York stage production directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins.

In Yiddish with English and Russian Supertitles.

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The legendary violinist talks about his difficult childhood, stricken by polio in the war-torn early days of Israeli statehood — and laughs about his early success, whisked away to the United States at 13 to perform on the Ed Sullivan Show. Plus, what makes a truly great instrumentalist? What makes a great teacher? Later, his wife Toby Perlman weighs in, too, so the interview becomes a family affair, topped with a spectacular Mendelssohn performance by eight students from the Perlman Music Program. Toby founded that summer school on idyllic Shelter Island to provide a safe space for young musical geniuses to develop their talents, and themselves. LISTEN NOW

Last night WQXR presented Alec Baldwin in conversation with the incomparable, Itzhak Perlman at the NYU Skirball Center in New York, NY.

In this one-on-one conversation, Ithzak Perlman discussed his life and career, from his upbringing as a polio-stricken child of refugees in Tel Aviv to his rise as an international star performing with the world’s most prestigious orchestras, to being honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015.

The evening also featured performances by students from The Perlman Music Program (PMP) in New York, an initiative Itzhak Perlman’s wife Toby Perlman founded to support young musicians (ages 12 – 18) of rare and special talent from around the globe. With a world-class faculty led by Itzhak Perlman and a signature summer program on Shelter Island, PMP is developing the future leaders of classical music within a nurturing and supportive community.