Navah Perlman | |
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Genres | Classical |
Occupation(s) | Pianist |
Instrument(s) | Piano |
Years active | 1986 - present [1] |
Labels | EMI Classics, Oxingale Records |
Website | Navah Perlman at IMG Artists |
Navah Miriam Perlman is a concert pianist and chamber musician. Her parents are violinists Toby and Itzhak Perlman.
Perlman performed as a soloist with the Greater Miami Youth Symphony Orchestra in 1984, and the Los Angeles American Youth Symphony Orchestra in 1985,. [2] and made her professional debut at age 15 with the Charleston West Virginia Symphony Orchestra in 1986. [3]
Perlman graduated from Brown University in 1992, [4] having switched her major from music to art. She also studied at Juilliard. [5]
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. [6] She is the Artistic Director of LPS Pro Musica in Lake Placid, New York.
At age 19, she began showing symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis. [7] As of 2008, she and her husband Robert D. Frost have four children. [8]
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