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Itzhak Perlman ( Hebrew : יצחק פרלמן ; born August 31, 1945) is an Israeli-American violinist , conductor , and pedagogue . Over the course of his career, Perlman has performed worldwide, and throughout the United States, in venues that have included a State Dinner at the White House honoring Queen Elizabeth II , and a Presidential Inauguration , and he has conducted the Detroit Symphony Orchestra , and the Westchester Philharmonic . In 2015, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom .
Perlman was born in Tel Aviv in 1945, then British Mandate of Palestine , now Israel . His parents, Chaim and Shoshana Perlman, were natives of Poland and had independently immigrated to Palestine in the mid-1930s before they met and later married.
Perlman first became interested in the violin after hearing a classical music performance on the radio. At the age of three, he was denied admission to the Shulamit Conservatory for being too small to hold a violin. He instead taught himself how to play the instrument using a toy fiddle until he was old enough to study with Rivka Goldgart at the Shulamit Conservatory and at the Academy of Music in Tel Aviv, where he gave his first recital at age 10, before moving to the United States to study at the Juillia