September 28, 2007

Jack Wright, (617) 598-3212, jw@celebrityseries.org

High-resolution photos: http://www.celebrityseries.org/Photo_Galleries/803-Perlman_Gallery.htm

CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON PRESENTS
VIOLINIST ITZHAK PERLMAN
WITH PIANIST ROHAN DE SILVA
AT SYMPHONY HALL ON SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28

(BOSTON)—Celebrity Series of Boston, Martha H. Jones, President and Executive Director, presents violinist Itzhak Perlman in recital with pianist Rohan de Silva on Sunday, October 28 at 3:00 p.m. at Symphony Hall, 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston. The concert is an Aaron Richmond Recital, and is sponsored by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

This marks the 24th Celebrity Series appearance for the acclaimed violinist who made his solo Celebrity Series debut in 1977.

Undeniably the reigning virtuoso of the violin, Itzhak Perlman enjoys superstar status rarely afforded a classical musician. President Reagan granted him a “Medal of Liberty” in 1986, President Clinton awarded him the “National Medal of the Arts” in December 2000, and in December 2003, he received a Kennedy Center Honor celebrating his distinguished achievements.

Mr. Perlman has won four Emmy Awards and fifteen Grammy Awards for his television appearances and recordings. He performed at the 2006 Academy Awards and at the Juilliard School Centennial gala, broadcast nationally on Live from Lincoln Center. He collaborated with composer John Williams in Steven Spielberg’s Academy Award winning film Schindler’s List, in which he performed the violin solos. He can also be heard as the violin soloist on the soundtrack of Zhang Yimou’s film Hero (music by Tan Dun) and Rob Marshall’s Memoirs of a Geisha (music by John Williams).

Thus far Mr. Perlman’s 2007-2008 season has included summer performances with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Mann Center and Saratoga Performing Arts Center, and with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood. This season he also appears in recital throughout Europe and the United States including performances in London, Paris, Brussels, Zurich, Boston, and Los Angeles, and embarks on a tour of Japan performing both in recital and with orchestra. Mr. Perlman will also perform with students from the Perlman Music Program in a three-concert series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

In addition to his many orchestral and recital appearances throughout the world, Mr. Perlman regularly conducts leading orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic. He was Principal Guest Conductor of the Detroit Symphony from 2001 to 2005 and was Music Advisor of the St. Louis Symphony from 2002 to 2004. This season he conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, New World Symphony, and Toronto Symphony.

Mr. Perlman devotes considerable time to education, both in his participation each summer in the Perlman Music Program and his teaching at the Juilliard School, where he holds the Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation Chair. He was awarded an honorary doctorate and a centennial medal on the occasion of Juilliard’s 100th commencement ceremony in May 2005.

PROGRAM INFORMATION
Sunday, October 28 at 3:00 PM
Symphony Hall
ITZHAK PERLMAN, violin
Rohan de Silva, piano

Program selections are to be announced.


TICKETING INFORMATION
Tickets, priced at $70, $55, $48, and $38, are available by calling CelebrityCharge at (617) 482-6661 (Monday-Friday 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.), online at www.celebrityseries.org, or at the Symphony Hall box office, 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, Monday-Saturday 10:00 a.m.- 6:00 p.m.


About Celebrity Series of Boston
Celebrity Series of Boston is New England's leading presenter of music, dance, and the performing arts from around the world. Founded in 1938, the Series incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation in 1989. Each year, the Celebrity Series brings to Boston's major concert halls performances by instrumental and vocal soloists, symphony orchestras, chamber ensembles, dance companies, jazz and popular music performers, folk and ethnic performance groups, and other performing artists. The Celebrity Series' Arts, Education and Community program was initiated in 1984. The program reaches thousands of students annually in Boston area schools and communities. The program includes the award-winning AileyCamp Boston, a six-week summer dance program for Boston middle school students, and ACT 2, an after-school initiative for former participants of AileyCamp Boston. For more information on Celebrity Series of Boston, call (617) 482-2595 or visit us online at www.celebrityseries.org.

The Celebrity Series receives major annual support from The Little Family Foundation; the Susanne Marcus Collins Foundation; Bank of America; The Linde Family Foundation; Tufts Health Plan; Talbots Charitable Foundation; Foley & Lardner LLP; Charlesbank Capital Partners; Comcast; Morgan Stanley; BDO Seidman; PTC; Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Foundation; Steven and Joan Belkin Foundation; Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; The Consolate General of Canada; The Collings Foundation; The Esther B. Kahn Charitable Foundation; The Red Sox Foundation; Massachusetts Cultural Council; National Endowment for the Arts; New England Foundation for the Arts; Catherine and Paul Buttenwieser Foundation; the Harris A. Berman and Ruth E. Nemzoff Family Foundation; Amy and Joshua Boger; DeMoulas Foundation; Margaret Eagle and Eli Rapaport; Kathleen and Steven Haley; Cerise and Charles Jacobs; Paul L. King; Sylvia and Gene Landy; Jann E. Leeming and Arthur D. Little; Paul F. and Barbara A. Levy; Frank and Eleanor Pao; Spring Sirkin and Arthur Frank; Dorothy and Steven Weber; Nancy Richmond Winsten and Dr. Joseph Winsten; Charles O. Wood, III and Miriam M. Wood; Ellen and Arnold Zetcher.

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