Itzhak Perlman (Hebrew: ΧΧ¦ΧΧ§ Χ€Χ¨ΧΧΧ; 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 ...
Small Wonders
1996
Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie
1988
Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration
2019
Fantasia 2000
2000
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
1994
Jascha Heifetz: God's Fiddler
2011
Orchestra of Exiles
2012
Music by John Williams
2024
Music of the Heart
1999
The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow
1994
Here Today
2021
Everyone Says I Love You
1996
A John Williams Celebration
2015
Itzhak
2017
Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!
1990
The Trout
1970
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
2018
Earl.
2024
Violin Masters: Two Gentlemen Of Cremona
2010
Jacqueline du PrΓ©: Genius and Tragedy
2025
We Want the Light
2004
Visions of Israel
2008
The Huberman Festival
2007
Dvorak in Prague: A Celebration
1993
My Music: Classical Rewind
N/A
Beethoven/Brahms - Violin Concertos (Perlman, Barenboim)
1992
Eugene Ormandy / Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky
1978
The Legendary Victor Borge
2004
A Tribute to Victor Borge
2008
Itzhak Perlman: Virtuoso Violinist
1978
Beethoven: Triple Concerto And Choral Fantasy
1995
Perlman in Russia
1992
Beethoven - Triple Concerto Symphony No. 6
2012
WΓ€ren nicht die Frauen
1997