Carnegie Hall today announced that pianist Martha Argerich has withdrawn from her duo-recital with violinist Itzhak Perlman on Thursday, March 22 at 8:00 p.m. in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage. Ms. Argerich-who was scheduled to perform at Carnegie Hall as part of a six-concert US tour-has withdrawn from all upcoming US tour engagements this spring due to family and health problems. "I am very sorry having to cancel my upcoming tour in the United States with Itzhak Perlman, whom I deeply admire and with whom I love playing," said Ms. Argerich. "Because of family and health problems, I cannot for the moment travel far and for extensive periods of time away from my home in Europe. Thank you very, very much for your understanding."
On this same date, Mr. Perlman will now offer a completely new program featuring longtime collaborators violinist and violist Pinchas Zukerman and pianist Rohan De Silva in a recital of music by J.S. Bach, Mozart, Wieniawski, Bartók, and Moszkowski. The complete revised program with updated artist listing for the March 22 concert at
Carnegie Hall is below.
Ticketholders with any questions can call CarnegieCharge at
212-247-7800.
About the Artists
A reigning virtuoso of the violin,
Itzhak Perlman enjoys superstar status rarely afforded a classical musician. Having performed with every major orchestra and leading concert hall around the globe, he is treasured by audiences throughout the world who respond not only to his remarkable artistry, but also to his irrepressible joy for making music.
Mr. Perlman's 2017-2018 season features several key collaborations and appearances. In addition to this
Carnegie Hall appearance, he and longtime friend and collaborator Pinchas Zukerman will play recitals across the United States in February and March with his frequent recital partner, pianist Rohan De Silva. In October 2017, he and Mr. Zukerman reunited with Zubin Mehta in a gala appearance at
Carnegie Hall with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, celebrating the orchestra's 80th anniversary. Also last fall, he and Mr. De Silva completed a sold out 10-city recital tour to Asia with stops including Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei, Seoul, and more. On the orchestral front, he leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic and San Francisco Symphony in play/conduct programs this season, and performs special gala concerts with the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Fort Worth Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, and Winnipeg Symphony.
Further to his engagements as violinist and conductor, Mr. Perlman is increasingly making more appearances as a speaker. Recent speaking engagements include appearances in Texas at Lamar University, South Dakota with the John T. Vucurevich Foundation, and a 2017 engagement in Washington D.C. for the Marriott Foundation.
A new documentary on Mr. Perlman, titled Itzhak, premiered in October 2017 as the opening film of the 2017 Hamptons International Film Festival. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Alison Chernick, the enchanting documentary details the virtuoso's own struggles as a polio survivor and Jewish émigré and is a reminder why art is vital to life. The film will be released theatrically nationwide in March 2018.
Mr. Perlman's recordings have garnered 16 Grammy Awards and they regularly appear on the best-seller charts. In 2008, Mr. Perlman was honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award for excellence in the recording arts.
Mr. Perlman's most recent album features him in a special collaboration with Martha Argerich. Released in 2016 by Warner Classics, it marked a historic first studio album for this legendary duo exploring masterpieces by Bach, Schumann, and Brahms. It had been 18 years since their first album, a live recital from the Saratoga Performing Arts Center.
Pinchas Zukerman has remained a phenomenon in the world of classical music for over four decades. His musical genius, prodigious technique and unwavering artistic standards are a marvel to audiences and critics. Devoted to the next generation of musicians, his magnetism, passion, and enthusiasm for teaching have resulted in innovative educational programs in London, New York, China, Israel, and Ottawa. Mr. Zukerman is equally respected as violinist, violist, conductor, pedagogue, and chamber musician.
The 2017-2018 season is Mr. Zukerman's ninth as principal guest conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and his third as the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra's Artist-in-Residence and includes over 100 concerts worldwide. He joined long-time friend
Itzhak Perlman for a gala performance with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra at
Carnegie Hall last fall as well as for upcoming duo recitals throughout the US. He tours with cellist Amanda Forsyth and the Zukerman Trio, and leads the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Baltimore, San Diego, Vancouver, Nashville and New West Symphonies, among others, as soloist and conductor.
Mr. Zukerman chairs the Pinchas Zukerman Performance Program at the Manhattan School of Music, where he pioneered the use of distance-learning technology in the arts over two decades ago. In Canada, where he served as Music Director of the National Arts Centre Orchestra from 1999-2015, he established the NAC Institute for Orchestra Studies and the Summer Music Institute encompassing the Young Artists, Conductors, and Composers Programs. He currently serves as Conductor Emeritus of the National Arts Centre Orchestra, as well as Artistic Director of its Young Artist Program.
Mr. Zukerman has been awarded the National Medal of Arts and the
Isaac Stern Award for Artistic Excellence, and was appointed as the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative's first instrumentalist mentor in the music discipline. His extensive discography contains over 100 titles, and has earned him two Grammy Awards and 21 nominations. His most recent critically acclaimed recording with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra includes works by Elgar and
Vaughan Williams.
Pianist Rohan De Silva has partnered with violin virtuoso
Itzhak Perlman in worldwide recitals, as well as many other notable violinists performing on the concert stage today. He has appeared at
Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Library of Congress, the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall in London, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, and at the White House at the invitation of
President Barack Obama in 2012 for Shimon Peres; and at a State Dinner in 2007 hosted by President
George W. Bush for Queen Elizabeth. A native of Sri Lanka, Mr. De Silva was invited in 2015 by the Prime Minister of his country to perform for U.S. Secretary of State
John Kerry on his historic visit to Sri Lanka.
In the 2017-18 season, Mr. De Silva will perform recitals with Mr. Perlman across America and return on tour to Asia visiting Japan, China, Taiwan and South Korea. In Spring 2018, Mr. De Silva will perform recitals with Mr. Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman in Boston, Newark, Miami, West
Palm Beach, D.C. at the Kennedy Center and in New York at
Carnegie Hall.
Mr. De Silva began his piano studies with his mother, Primrose De Silva, and with Mary Billimoria. He spent six years at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and received many awards including the Grover Bennett Scholarship, the Christian Carpenter Prize, the Martin Music Scholarship, the Harold Craxton Award, and the Chappell Gold Medal for best overall performance. Mr. De Silva was the first recipient of a special scholarship in the arts from the President's Fund of Sri Lanka. This enabled him to enter The Juilliard School, studying with Martin Canin, Felix Galimir, and violin pedagogue Dorothy DeLay. He was awarded Best Accompanist at the Ninth International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, and received the Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award presented to him by
Itzhak Perlman at
Carnegie Hall.
Mr. De Silva has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, CBS/
Sony Classical, Collins Classics in London and RCA Victor.
Program Information
Thursday, March 22, 2018 at 8:00 p.m.
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
Itzhak Perlman, Violin
PINCHAS ZUKERMAN, Violin and Viola
ROHAN DE SILVA, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach Sonata for Two Violins and Keyboard in C Major, BWV 1037
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Duo for Violin and Viola in G Major, K. 423
HENRYK WIENIAWSKI Etude-caprice No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 18
HENRYK WIENIAWSKI Etude-caprice No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 18
BÉLA BARTÓK Selections from Forty-Four Duos for Two Violins, BB 104
MORITZ MOSZKOWSKI Suite for Two Violins and Piano in G Minor, Op. 71
This performance is sponsored by Mizuho Americas.
This concert is made possible, in part, by The Gary C. and Ethel B. Thom Fund for Piano Performance and Education.
Bank of America is the Proud Season Sponsor of
Carnegie Hall.
Ticket Information
Tickets, priced $84-$290, are available at the
Carnegie Hall Box Office,
154 West 57th Street, or can be charged to major credit cards by calling CarnegieCharge at
212-247-7800 or by visiting the
Carnegie Hall website,
carnegiehall.org.
For
Carnegie Hall Corporation presentations taking place in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage, a limited number of seats, priced at $10, will be available day-of-concert beginning at 11:00 a.m. Monday through Saturday and 12:00 noon on Sunday until one hour before the performance or until supply lasts. The exceptions are
Carnegie Hall Family Concerts and gala events. These $10 tickets are available to the general public on a first-come, first-served basis at the
Carnegie Hall Box Office only. There is a two-ticket limit per customer.
In addition, for all
Carnegie Hall presentations in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage a limited number of partial view (seats with obstructed or limited sight lines or restricted leg room) will be sold for 50% of the full price. For more information on this and other discount ticket programs, including those for students, Notables members, and Bank of America customers, visit
carnegiehall.org/discounts. Artists, programs, and prices are subject to change.
