What is Itzhak Perlman?
{{Infobox musical artist | name = Itzhak Perlman<br>יצחק פרלמן | image = ItzhakPerlmanWhitehouse2.jpg | image_size = 250px | background = non_vocal_instrumentalist | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1945|08|31}} | birth_place = {{nowrap|[[Tel Aviv]], [[British Mandate of Palestine]]}}<br />(now [[Tel Aviv]], [[Israel]]) | death_date = | death_place = | instrument = [[Violin]] | genre = [[Classical music|Classical]], [[Jazz music|jazz]], [[klezmer]], [[Baroque music|baroque]] | occupation = [[Conducting|Conductor]], [[Pedagogy|pedagogue]], [[violin]]ist | years_active = 1963–present | associated_acts = | website = {{URL|itzhakperlman.com/}} }} '''Itzhak Perlman''' (born August 31, 1945) is an [[Israel]]i-[[United States of America|American]] [[violin]]ist. == Early life == Perlman was born in [[Tel Aviv]] which, three years later, became part of the state of [[Israel]]. When he was small he listened to the violin on the radio and decided he wanted to play it. He studied at the Academy of Music in Tel Aviv. Then he moved to the [[United States]] to study at the [[Juilliard School]] with [[Ivan Galamian]] and [[Dorothy DeLay]]. He made his first public performance at [[Carnegie Hall]] in 1963. In 1964 he won the Leventritt Competition. Soon afterward he began to tour widely. He also appeared on American television in shows including ''[[Sesame Street]]''. He was invited to play at the [[White House]]. Perlman had been ill with [[polio]] at the age of four. He got better, and managed to learn to walk again with the use of crutches. Today, he still walks with crutches and plays the violin sitting down. == Career == In 1987, he joined the [[Israel Philharmonic Orchestra]] for their concerts in [[Warsaw]] and [[Budapest]], as well as other Eastern bloc countries. He toured with the IPO in the spring of 1990 for their first-ever performance in the [[USSR]], with concert