Guest Artist Bio

Rohan De Silva

• Performs in Itzhak Perlman in Recital:
  Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 7:30 pm
  

Rohan De Silva’s partnerships with violin virtuosos Itzhak Perlman, 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 artists he has performed at venues ranging form New York’s Carnegie Hall and  Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall to the Kennedy Center, the Library of Congress, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Mozarteum in Salzburg and La Scala in Milan.

He performs frequently with Itzhak Perlman and was seen with Perlman on PBS’ Live from Lincoln Center broadcast in 2000.  De Silva regularly tours Japan with Perlman, and in 2002 they toured the Far East. In 2006, he toured with Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman, including stops in Chicago, Boston, New York and Washington. In September 2009, he performed with Perlman in Mexico City and in recital at the Moscow Conservatory. Since 2000, he has been a faculty member at the Perlman Music Program on Long Island. 

A native of Sri Lanka, De Silva spent six years at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He was the first recipient of a special scholarship in the arts from the Presidents Fund of Sri Lanka, which enabled him to enter The Juilliard School, where he received both his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees, studying piano with Martin Canin, chamber music with Felix Galimir, and working closely with violin pedagogue Dorothy DeLay.  He was awarded a special prize as best accompanist at the 1990 Ninth International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and received the Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award from Itzhak Perlman in 2005 at Carnegie Hall. He has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, CBS/SONY Classical, Collins Classics in London and RCA Victor.