PERLMAN / SCHMIDT / BAILEY TRIO – EN

Perlman / Schmidt / Bailey trio

Navah Perlman (Piano)
(Navah Miriam Perlman)

Born: 1971 – New York City, New York, USA

American pianist

Was born into a musical family. Her parents are violinists Toby and Itzhak Perlman. She began her piano studies at age 6 with Ronit Amir Lowenthal and later attended the Juilliard School where she worked with Herbert Stessin. She also studied chamber music with Robert Mann, Felix Galimir, and Dorothy DeLay. She performed as a soloist with the Greater Miami Youth Symphony Orchestra in 1984, and the Los Angeles American Youth Symphony Orchestra in 1985,. and made her professional debut at age 15 with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra in 1986.

Navah Perlman was well on her way to a career as a concert pianist when she had to give up playing. At the end of her freshman year at Brown University in 1990, during which she also studied piano at Julliard, she became very ill and was diagnosed with a hybrid of three different diseases: rheumatoid arthritis, a spinal form of arthritis called spondyll arthritis and periphery lupus symptoms. “I had conflicting symptoms and it took my doctors a while to figure it out,” she said. “I was ordered to stop playing the piano.” But instead of see nothing but disaster, she turned her focus to art history, a subject with which she had become fascinated during a survey course. She graduated with Master of Art History with honors from Brown University in 1992.

By the time Navah Perlman had graduated, she had recovered enough to begin cautiously practicing, ten minutes a day to start. Ultimately, she regained her technique. Fortunately, the disease had not reached her fingers. Although she had avoided performing with her famous father before, now, she worked back into concert life with his help. Being scheduled to perform with Itzhak Perlman overcame a confidence problem: She was worried that, performing on her own, she might cause disappointment if she had to cancel. But, sharing the billing with her father meant that if she did cancel, all that would happen would be that the audience would have a longer Itzhak Perlman concert to enjoy. After two years, she realized that her health was reliable enough that she could perform on her own, and the two Perlmans have mainly dropped their double appearances, though they do appear together for benefit concerts.

Known for her lyrical eloquence on the stage, Navah Perlman has established herself as one of the most poetic and admired pianists of her generation. She has performed to critical acclaim in major concert venues throughout North America, Europe and Asia. She has appeared with numerous orchestras throughout North America including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Nashville Symphony and Montreal Symphony. Internationally, she has appeared with the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, National Orchestra of Mexico, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Prague Symphony and New Japan Philharmonic in Suntory Hall. She has given recitals in Washington, D.C., Dallas, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Scottsdale, and Baltimore. Her previous season highlights include performances with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Westchester Philharmonic and a duo-performance with soprano Arianna Zukerman in Washington, D.C.

In addition to her successful solo career, Navah Perlman collaborates frequently in chamber music with violinist Philippe Quint and cellist Zuill Bailey as the Perlman/Quint/Bailey Trio. The trio’s energetic and passionate performances have taken them to major concert halls, festivals and universities across North America including Lincoln Center, the Lied Centers of Kansas and Nebraska, the Kennedy Center, Ravinia and the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival as well as in cities such as San Francisco, Chicago, St. Louis, Phoenix, Houston, Charlotte, Westchester, and Mexico City. The trio slso frequently performes L.v. Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with orchestra.

Navah Perlman’s 2011-2012 season highlights include a performance with the Perlman/Quint/Bailey Trio presented by the San Diego Symphony, a recital tour throughout Florida in the spring as well as duo recitals with Zuill Bailey.

Navah Perlman is an active and respected performer of residency and educational outreach activities. Communities in which she has given extended residencies include Raleigh, North Carolina and Vancouver, British Columbia. While in residence, Ms. Perlman teaches students of all ages in master classes, speaks to school assemblies and has also conducted pedagogy workshops for teachers. She has participated in several chamber music residency programs, including those at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, the University of California at Davis, and Stanford University.

Navah Perlman’s recital recording of J.S. Bach, L.v. Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn, Frédéric Chopin and Prokofiev is available on EMI Classics. Other recordings include:”The Rose Album” (Oxingale Records, 2002); Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-3, 6-8; Ballet Arrangements (EMI Classics, 2009).

Zuill Bailey

Rare combination of compelling artistry, technical finesse and engaging personality has secured his place as one of the most sought after cellists today.

A consummate concerto soloist, Bailey performs with the symphony orchestras of Chicago, Dallas, Ft. Worth, Louisville, Milwaukee, Minnesota, San Francisco, Toronto and Utah, among other leading orchestras around the world. He has collaborated with such conductors as Itzhak Perlman, Alan Gilbert, Andrew Litton, Grant Llewellyn, James DePreist and Stanislav Skrowacezewski, and has been featured in chamber music settings with such artists as Leon Fleisher, the Juilliard String Quartet, Jaime Laredo, Lynn Harrell and Janos Starker. In his New York recital debut, Bailey performed a sold-out performance of the complete Beethoven Sonatas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In addtion to other major venues, he has appeared at the Kennedy Center, Alice Tully Hall, the 92nd St.Y and Carnegie Hall, where he made his debut performing the U.S. premiere of Miklos Theodorakis’ Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra.

His international appearances include celebrated performances with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra in its 50th anniversary tour of Russia, as well as concerts in the Dominican Republic, France, Israel, Hong Kong, Jordan, Mexico, Peru and the United Kingdom. Festival appearances include Ravinia, the Interlochen Center for the Arts, the Santa Fe Chamber Music, Chautauqua and Bard Festivals, Bravo! Vail Valley, Maverick Concert Series and the Music Academy of the West.

Zuill Bailey is a member of the acclaimed Perlman-Schmidt-Bailey Trio, featuring pianist Navah Perlman and violinist Giora Schmidt. He performs regularly with long-time duo partner pianist Awadagin Pratt as well as with pianist Simone Dinnerstein. Their recording of the Beethoven Sonatas for Cello and Piano has received widespread popular and critical acclaim. Other recordings by Mr.Bailey include a debut recital disc with music of Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Francoeur et al., Cello Quintets of Boccherini and Schubert with Janos Starker, Saint-Saens Cello Concertos Nos. 1 and 2, and the Korngold Cello Concerto with Kaspar Richter and the Bruckner Orchestra Linz.

Network television appearances include a recurring role on the HBO series Oz, features on NBC, A&E, NHK-TV in Japan, a live broadcast of the Beethoven Triple Concerto from Mexico City, and the televised Cuban premiere of Victor Herbert’s Cello Concerto No.2 with the National Orchestra of Cuba. He can be heard on NPR’s Performance Today, Saint Paul Sunday, BBC’s In Tune, XM Radio’s Live from Studio II, Sirius Satellite Radio, and RTHK Radio Hong Kong.

Zuill Bailey performs on a 1693 cello by Matteo Gofriller, formerly owned by Mischa Schneider of the Budapest String Quartet. In addition to his extensive touring engagements, Bailey is the Artistic Director of El Paso Pro Musica and Professor of Cello at the University of Texas at El Paso. He lives with his wife, sculptor Margarita Cabrera, and their two young sons in El Paso.

Giora Schmidt

Praised by the Cleveland Plain Dealer as “impossible to resist, captivating with lyricism, tonal warmth, and boundless enthusiasm,” violinist Giora Schmidt has appeared as soloist with many prominent symphony orchestras around the globe including Atlanta, Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Canada’s National Arts Centre, Toronto, Vancouver and the Israel Philharmonic.

In recital and chamber music, Giora has performed at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, San Francisco Performances, the Louvre Museum in Paris, and Tokyo’s Musashino Cultural Hall. Festival appearances include the Ravinia Festival, the Santa Fe and Montreal Chamber Music Festivals, Bard Music Festival, Scotia Festival of Music and Music Academy of the West. He has collaborated with eminent musicians including Yefim Bronfman, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Lynn Harrell, Ralph Kirshbaum and Michael Tree.

Born in Philadelphia to professional musicians from Israel, Giora began playing the violin at the age of four. A graduate of the Juilliard School, his teachers have included Geoffrey Michaels, Patinka Kopec, Dorothy DeLay and Itzhak Perlman; with additional guidance from Pinchas Zukerman. Committed to education and sharing his passion for music, Giora is currently on the artist faculty at New York University (NYU Steinhardt) and Orford Musique Academy (Quebec) in the summer. He was previously on the faculty at the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music, the Juilliard School and Perlman Music Program. Through technology and social media, he continues to find new ways of reaching young violinists and music lovers around the world.

He is the recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant, The Classical Recording Foundation’s Samuel Sanders award, and was a Starling Fellow at the Juilliard School.

Giora plays a c. 1830 violin by Giuseppe Rocca and strings kindly sponsored by Thomastik-Infeld, Vienna.