Murray Perahia

Famed pianist Murray Perahia is renowned for his performances of interpretively difficult music from Bach to Schumann. He has a vast recording catalog, much of it made for the CBS Masterworks label and its descendant, Sony Classical. Perahia is highly esteemed among his fellow musicians and has won three Grammy Awards and numerous Gramophone Awards in Britain, where he lives. Plagued by a hand injury in later life, he released his most recent recording to date, one of Beethoven's "Hammerklavier" and "Moonlight" Sonatas in 2018. Perahia was born on April 19, 1947, in the New Y...