Pianist plans performance at Four Seasons

By MARILYN LaROCQUE

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Pianist Navah Perlman, who has delighted audiences with the romantic, lyric eloquence of her piano playing style, will perform at the Las Vegas Philharmonic's Connoisseur Series Soiree on Jan. 17 in the Palm Room at the Four Seasons Hotel-Las Vegas, 3960 S. Las Vegas Blvd.

Sponsored by Cartier, the Soirees are intimate evening gatherings that combine a reception and recital.

Perlman will perform the Toccata in C-minor by Johann Sebastian Bach, Robert Schumann's Sonata No. 2 in G-minor, Op. 22, and Bacarolle, Op. 60, by Frederic Chopin.

"Our guests will not only enjoy hearing Navah Perlman play in an elegant setting that personalizes her performance but also have the opportunity to meet her," said the Philharmonic's Music Director, Harold Weller.

The soiree begins at 6:30 p.m. Further information is available by phoning 258-5438.

Perlman began her piano studies at age 6 and later attended the Juilliard School of Music in New York. She graduated from Brown University with an honors degree in Art History. She has performed with orchestras around the world, including the Toronto Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Mexico, the Israel Philharmonic and the New Japan Philharmonic. She has also concertized with her father, Itzhak Perlman, both as violinist and conductor.

In addition to her successful solo career, Navah Perlman collaborates frequently with violinist Kurt Nikkanen and cellist Zuill Bailey. The trio has performed at the Kennedy Center, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), as well as at other cities in the U.S. and at the Ravinia Festival Rising Stars series.

Critics have described Ms. Perlman and her interpretations of classic works as a pianist with calm and songful sound (Philadelphia Inquirer), a romantic and poetic interpretation (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) and extraordinary technical facility ... poetic breadth of phrasing ... pumped liquid gold music (Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail).