Rohan de Silva performs at New York's Avery Fisher Hall
NEW YORK: The internationally-renowned Sri Lankan pianist Rohan de
Silva collaborated once again with violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman in a
superlative performance at New York's Avery Fisher Hall last week.
Both performers, who had earlier appeared at the White House East
Room during Queen Elizabeth's visit to Washington DC last month, were
given standing ovations by the New York audience.
De Silva's partnerships with other violin virtuosos Cho-Liang Lin,
Midori, Joshua Bell, Benny Kim, Kyoko Takezawa, Vadim Repin, Gil Shaham,
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, and Julian Rachlin have led to highly
acclaimed performances at recital venues all over the world.
With these and other artistes, he has performed at Carnegie Hall,
Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy
Center, Library of Congress, Philadelphia Academy of Music, Ambassador
Theater in Los Angeles, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall in
London, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the Mozarteum in Salzburg and La Scala in
Milan and Tel-Aviv, Israel.
His festival appearances include the Aspen Interlochen, Manchester,
Ravinia and Schleswig-Holstein Festivals, the Pacific Music Festival in
Sapporo, Japan, and the Wellington Arts Festival in New Zealand.
He performs frequently with Itzhak Perlman and was seen with Perlman
on PBS' Live from Lincoln Center broadcast in early January 2000.
De Silva recently toured Japan with Perlman, and in August 2002, they
toured the Far East including performances in China, Hong Kong and
Taiwan.
In spring 2006, he toured with Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman,
including stops in Chicago, Boston, New York and Washington DC. In the
2006-07 season, De Silva appeared in recital with Perlman across the
United States.
As of July 2000, Rohan de Silva has been a faculty member at the
Perlman Music Programme on Long Island. |