Itzhak Perlman – San Diego Story

Dynamic Duo Soars in Strauss and Faure´

By Ken Herman | January 22, 2016 |

Over long and acclaimed performing careers, violinist Itzhak Perlman and pianist Emanuel Ax have amassed a respectable following, so it was no surprise that the Jacobs Music Center’s Copley Symphony Hall sold out for their duo recital on Wednesday . . .

Perlman Dazzles as Symphony Soloist

By Bill Eadie | January 13, 2014 |

Pro basketball hall of famer Bill Walton may have been the tallest man at San Diego’s Jacobs Music Center – Copley Symphony Hall on Saturday night, but he was not the biggest. Instead, it was legendary violinist Itzhak Perlman who was the evening’s star attraction, dazzling concertgoers young and old, short and (very) tall with the first of two masterful weekend performances of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61.