Navah Perlman
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Navah Perlman is a concert pianist. Her parents are violinist
Violin
The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....

s Toby and Itzhak Perlman
Itzhak Perlman
Itzhak Perlman is an Israeli-born violinist, conductor, and instructor of master classes. He is regarded as one of the pre-eminent violinists of the 20th and early-21st centuries.-Early life:...

.

Perlman performed as a soloist
Solo (music)
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 with the Greater Miami Youth Symphony Orchestra in 1984, and made her professional debut at age 15 with the Charleston
Charleston, West Virginia
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 Symphony Orchestra in 1986.

Perlman graduated from Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...

 in 1992, having switched her major from music to art
Art
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....

. She also studied at Juilliard.

Personal life

At age 19, she began showing symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic, systemic inflammatory disorder that may affect many tissues and organs, but principally attacks synovial joints. The process produces an inflammatory response of the synovium secondary to hyperplasia of synovial cells, excess synovial fluid, and the development...

, and battled it for the next 5 years.

As of 2008, she and her husband Robert D. Frost have four children.

Piano works

  • Piano Works 2000 EMI
    EMI Records
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  • The Rose Album 2002 Oxingale Records
  • Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-3, 6-8; Ballet Arrangements 2009 EMI Classics

External links

  • Navah Perlman at IMG Artists
    IMG Artists
    IMG Artists LLC is a top universal performing arts management corporation that was acquired by International Management Group in 1984. Chairman and CEO of IMG, Mark McCormack, bought out Hamlen/Landau, a small, New York based artist-management music agency, founded by Charles Hamlen and Edna...

  • Navah Perlman at last.fm
    Last.fm
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  • [ Album Credits Allmusic]
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