Honors and Awards
- Leventritt Competition – Winner (1964)
- Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance:
- Daniel Barenboim & Itzhak Perlman for Brahms: The Three Violin Sonatas (1991)
- Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lynn Harrell & Itzhak Perlman for Beethoven: The Complete Piano Trios (1988)
- Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lynn Harrell & Itzhak Perlman for Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A Minor (1982)
- Itzhak Perlman & Pinchas Zukerman for Music for Two Violins (Moszkowski: Suite For Two Violins/Shostakovich: Duets/Prokofiev: Sonata for Two Violins) (1981)
- Itzhak Perlman & Vladimir Ashkenazy for Beethoven: Sonatas for Violin and Piano (1979)
- Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra)
- Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra)
- Grammy Award for Best Classical Album
- Kennedy Center Honors in 2003
- April 1980: Newsweek magazine featured Mr.Perlman with a cover story.
- 1986: Honored with the Medal of Liberty by President Reagan.
- 2000: Awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Clinton.
- Awarded honorary degrees from Harvard, Yale, Brandeis, Roosevelt, the Cleveland Institute of Music, Yeshiva and Hebrew Universities.
In 2005, he was voted the 135th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.
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