Navah Miriam Perlman is a

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and

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ian. Her parents are

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ists Toby and

Itzhak Perlman Itzhak Perlman ( he, יצחק פרלמן; born August 31, 1945) is an Israeli-American violinist widely considered one of the greatest violinists in the world. Perlman has performed worldwide and throughout the United States, in venues that hav ...

Education and career

Perlman performed as a soloist with the Greater Miami Youth

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in 1984, and the Los Angeles

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Orchestra in 1985,. and made her professional debut at age 15 with the Charleston West Virginia Symphony Orchestra in 1986. Perlman graduated from

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in 1992, having switched her major from music to

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. She also studied at

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. In addition to her solo piano career, she frequently performs chamber music, including with violinist Philippe Quint and cellist Zuill Bailey as the Perlman/Quint/Bailey Trio. She is the Artistic Director of LPS Pro Musica in Lake Placid, New York.

Personal life

At age 19, she began showing symptoms of

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. As of 2008, she and her husband Robert D. Frost have four children.

Discography

Prokofiev Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev; alternative transliterations of his name include ''Sergey'' or ''Serge'', and ''Prokofief'', ''Prokofieff'', or ''Prokofyev''., group=n (27 April .S. 15 April1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer ...

solo piano works, performing ''Four Pieces from

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'' opus 75 (2009). EMI Classics CD 6 95590 2 *''Piano trios by Schubert and Shostakovich'', with cellist

Zuill Bailey James Zuill Bailey, better known as Zuill Bailey (born 1972) is a Grammy Award-winning American cellist, chamber musician, and artistic director. A graduate of the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University and the Juilliard School, he has ...

and violinist

Giora Schmidt Giora Schmidt (pronounced ghee-OH-rah) is an American/Israeli violinist. Biography Giora Schmidt was born into a family of musicians in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His parents emigrated from Israel in 1978, and played with the Philadelphia Opera ...

(2008). Telarc CD *''The Rose Album'', performing

David Popper David Popper (June 16, 1843 – August 7, 1913) was a Bohemian cellist and composer. Some other sources list his date of birth as December 9, 1843. Life Popper was born in Prague, and studied music at the Prague Conservatory. His family was Je ...

's ''Requiem for Three Cellos and Piano'' opus 66, with cellists

Matt Haimovitz Matt Haimovitz (born December 3, 1970) is a cellist based in the United States and Canada. Born in Israel, he grew up in the US from the age of five. He plays mainly a cello made by Matteo Goffriller in 1710. Family, musical education and ear ...

Sara Sant'Ambrogio Sara Sant'Ambrogio (born 1962) is an American cellist best known as a member of the Eroica Trio. She was born in Boston and began her studies with her father, John Sant'Ambrogio, principal cellist with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. She was ...

, and

(2002). Oxingale Records CD OX2002 *''Piano Works, Debut'', performing piano solos by Bach, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Chopin, and Prokofiev (2000).

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CD 5 74019 2

References

External links

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Perlman/Quint/Bailey Trio
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Navah Perlman
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