Internationally-renowned Sri Lankan pianist Rohan de Silva performs at New York’s Avery Fisher Hall

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.