May 10, 2013
Perlman Music Program alumni Christine Lamprea and Hannah Shields return to Shelter Island [on] Saturday, May 11, to present an exciting program of music spanning from Bach to Prokofiev.
May 01, 2013
“Toby’s Dream,” her vision to establish and sustain a top-notch summer music school for gifted youngsters from around the world, with a healthy contingent from the metropolitan area, is about to have its 19th realization… “
March 26, 2013
On Saturday, March 16, 2013, The Perlman Music Program (PMP) held its Sixth Annual Concert and Dinner in Palm Beach, FL.
March 16, 2013
[The Perlman Music Program] has been thriving under the watchful eye and a nurturing approach of the PMP founder and the wife of Maestro Itzhak Perlman, Toby, since its inception in 1993
January 28, 2013
On Wednesday, January 23, 2013, The Perlman Music Program (PMP) held its Fourth Charity Wine Auction at Per Se.
November 09, 2012
World-renowned violinist and conductor Itzhak Perlman came to the Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center in Stowe. He is here for a three-day stint of tutoring and performing with young musicians. Watch the video here
November 01, 2012
“It’s all about Sidney and Morgan Stark. They live in Stowe, they have a weekend home in Stowe, and Morgan is the president of my board,” said Toby Perlman, the violinist’s wife who in 1993 founded the program for young musicians — in residency in Vermont through Saturday. “He thought that Stowe was ideal for this.”
October 25, 2012
“Perlman and his wife and program director, Toby Perlman, together with their staff and faculty, will bring 24 of their alumni, all accomplished young string players between ages 18 and 25, to practice and perform [at the Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center in Stowe, Vermont] over four days.”
August 30, 2012
“A Violin Prodigy Performs on Shelter Island. Violinist Kristin Lee… “
August 08, 2012
“The Perlman Music Program (PMP) held its Annual Summer Benefit in the beautiful community of North Haven, New York on Saturday, July 28, 2012.”
August 02, 2012
“Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Stark opened their North Haven home for a celebration concert featuring The Perlman String Orchestra and chorus, conducted by Maestros Itzhak Perlman and Patrick Romano. Music selections included works by Handel, Vivaldi, and Dvorak.”
July 31, 2012
“The Perlman Music Program, an extraordinary education, not only teaches students how to grow as musicians, it teaches them how grow as citizens of the world.”
July 26, 2012
“Tuesday night’s game against the Southampton Breakers started off with a bang when the Perlman Music Program students gave an all-string rendition of the National Anthem and Itzhak Perlman himself, one of the world’s pre-eminent violinists, threw out the first ball (and yes, it was a strike).”
July 26, 2012
“Exceptional East End youths, dubbed the East End Arts Student Orchestra, will participate in an open rehearsal with the acclaimed conductor [Maestro Itzhak Perlman] and his 40-musician Perlman Music Program Orchestra on Friday, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Southold High School.”
June 28, 2012
“James H. Clark and his wife, Kristy, cut the ribbon to mark the opening of the Clark Arts Center on Saturday on the 28-acre Shelter Island waterfront campus of the Perlman Music Program.”
June 27, 2012
“This memorable night ushered in a new era for The Perlman Music Program.”
June 22, 2012
Perlman Music Camp Opens New Building
“Now, after 17 summers, the Perlman Music Program is ready to cut the ribbon on the new $3 million Kristy and James H. Clark Arts Center. The new building augments the already fairly well equipped campus in several important ways. Designed by Eric Woodward to nicely blend into the traditional “summer camp” architecture that surrounds it, the Clark Arts Center features sound-insulated practice rooms, a teaching studio, and a state-of-the-art rehearsal/performance hall.”
June 21, 2012
Perlman Music Program opens new arts center named for Kristy and James H. Clark
“With the completion of the Clark Arts Center and development of new programs, the Perlman Music Program is moving toward a year-round presence.”
May 24, 2012
Celebrating The Perlman Music Program
“On Saturday, May 19, 2012, Sidney and Morgan Stark graciously hosted a private performance and reception celebrating The Perlman Music Program (PMP) at their beautiful home in North Haven, New York.”
May 15, 2012
Violinist Perlman Leads Exceptional Pupils
“Violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman appeared at the Sandler Center for the Performing Arts with a group of his students, members of the Perlman Music Program, started in 1993 and now recognized as a wonderful training ground for music’s future greats.”
May 15, 2012
“This year’s event highlighted the Program’s extraordinary students and alumni with an exclusive chamber music concert in the Armory’s historic Veterans Room.”
January 05, 2012
Perlman Music Program: Works in Progress
“The PMP concert of mini-recitals by mini-recitalists held at Harvest Methodist Church in Lakewood Ranch was an important opportunity for these super-talented students to gain experience and confidence.”
December 04, 2011
Virtuosos – The Perlman Music Program in Spanish Vogue
“Watching these extraordinary young people go into the world, and thinking we have something to do with it … that’s the best part.” –Toby Perlman”
October 27, 2011
“A weekend with Itzhak Perlman and his young musicians”
August 12, 2011
Learning from the Masters
“The students’ dedication to playing music is shown through their focus and commitment to putting on a fantastic show”
August 10, 2011
August 08, 2011
Chamber Music from Perlman Students Featured at Greenport School
August 01, 2011
Vanity Fair Nominates Itzhak Perlman
“The 65-year-old musician is equally devoted in his roles as teacher, coach, and mentor. In 1993 his wife, Toby, founded the Perlman Music Program on Long Island, New York, to develop “the next generation of world-class musicians””
July 27, 2011
The Perlman Music Program Hosts Summer Benefit in East Hampton
July 25, 2011
Hamptons Scene: Itzhak Perlman, Gary Fuhrman, Barbara Goldsmith
“There’s no hierarchy here, no room for showing off,” said Itzhak Perlman during the cocktail hour. “What we appreciate is that everybody does their best.”
June 22, 2011
“The Perlman Music Program announces its 2011 summer season on the East End”
March 28, 2011
Itzhak Perlman’s students earn the spotlight at the Terrace Theater
“Their playing was warm, supple and mature beyond their years.”
March 25, 2011
November 13, 2010
The Perlmans’ Paradise
“Toby and Itzhak Perlman provide young musicians a place to learn and grow”
August 12, 2010
Gimme Shelter – On Location in Shelter Island
“I felt inspired when I learned that Mr. Perlman stays on campus full time during the summer session, eats with the students, gives them private lessons each week, and participates in their activities.”
July 08, 2010
Musical Passion Local and Free
June 24, 2010
Child to Musician
May 01, 2010
Itzhak Perlman, Members of The Perlman Music Program; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 13 2010
August 26, 2008
Chamber Musicians Felt the Love
“The accomplishments of The Perlman Music Program were quite apparent at a concert on Friday marking the close of its Chamber Music Workshop.”
August 08, 2008
The Perlman Music Program Well Underway
“The Perlman Music Program has quickly developed an international reputation as a leader in the field of classical music training institutions.”
August 04, 2008
Goings On About Town
July 11, 2008
Young Virtuosi At Perlman Music Program
“It is striking at first to see just how young and how talented the students are who participate in The Perlman Music Program, violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman’s summer camp. You will be dumbfounded watching them play, as if they are magically expressing their souls through music.”
June 19, 2008
Sublime Music On Soft Summer Nights
“It is often said by people in the audience, if you close your eyes at one of their concerts, you can swear you are in Philharmonic Hall at Lincoln Center. There are only thirty-eight students, selected from a very large number of applicants, and it would not be an exaggeration to describe some of them as prodigies, and all of them as excellent.”
March 24, 2008
A Give and Take Between Experienced and Emerging –
A Performance by an Ensemble that Grew Out of the Perlman Program
“The most immediately striking element of the Mendelssohn performance was not the music making, polished as it was, but the ensemble’s body language……these players attentively watched for cues from Mr. Perlman and one another and seemed genuinely engaged in the give and take. The performance illuminated the richness of Mendelssohn’s melodic imagination and had the fluidity and zest you expect from musicians who react to one another rather than merely play their lines.”
August 23, 2007
Sheer Joy by Perlman
“The title of the program was “Tutti Suonare” of “everybody plays” and, indeed, over the course of the evening every student participant in the [Chamber Music] Workshop played on at least one selection…..A single member of the illustrious faculty joined the students on each selection and this included Mr. Perlman himself, who took the stage to rapturous ovations to close each half of the program.”
August 09, 2007
Changing the Lives of The Young Musicians –
Celebrated violinist brings his charges to Old Whalers
“I think that some of these kids are kept in a kind of mold of the gifted child. They practice four hours a day. Their families are making serious sacrifices for them. I think they feel the weight of responsibility…..The program is about making a musician and being a person. We want to cultivate all aspects of their personality. The kids are at a very intense time in their development. But I see to much personal growth and enormous possibility in them”. –Toby Perlman
July 27, 2007
Promise Fulfilled in Perlman Protégés
“Patrick Romano, a faculty member of the program and conductor of the chorus, had a vigorous, dynamic conducting style, which elicited clear, crisp, well-blended singing. At times he stepped away from the podium, making strong, sharp gestures, or signaled a hush with fingers to his mouth, or put a hand on his cheeks to remind them how to shape a vowel. And it worked…”
August 08, 2002
What Itzhak Perlman Learned at Camp -
While Helping Students, His Wife Says, He Reinvented Himself
“Itzhak Perlman doesn’t tell students how to play. He asks them judge their own playing as a critic would.
For me one of the great things about teaching is not so much what to say but to know what not to say. If somebody is talented, they contain a certain kind of magic, and that magic is very precious, because it is on very precarious ground. It’s like a very fine leaf that if you shake it too much, it breaks. You have to let the branch grow until it becomes strong enough that if you shake it, it won’t break.”
July 25, 2002
A Musical Dream Come True –
Thou Shalt Learn to Play Without Being Tortured
“In Toby’s dream all gifted young musicians are nurtured with kindness and respect. They develop social skills and learn to share the spotlight. If they don’t master the music it’s the teacher’s failure. And if they burn out young, an overly ambitious parent may be hovering backstage.”
June 27, 2002
How Do You Get to Camp? Practice of Course –
Teenagers Who Play Music, Not Tennis
“I told this guy I practice 4 hours a day…All my friends are music friends…Camp is wonderful; it’s really exciting to have people around who are similar to me.”
