Born in 1945 in Tel Aviv, Palestine, (now Israel) and made his debut at Carnegie Hall in 1963. He plays on a Stradivarius from 1714 and a Guarneri Del Gesu from 1743. He played the scores from the movies "Schindler's List" and "Memoirs of a Geisha". In 1995, the Perlmans founded the Perlman Music Program in Shelter Island, New York, offering gifted young string players a summer residential course in chamber music.