LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER presents an intimate concert from Lincoln Center’s Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse. Hosted by Alan Alda, “Perlman, Ax and Ma @ The Penthouse” features three long-time friends and renowned musicians performing Mendelssohn’s beloved Piano Trios, along with other favorite collaborations.

Pianist Emanuel Ax studied at The Juilliard School and Columbia University, capturing public attention in 1974, when he won the first Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv. In recognition of the bicentenaries of Chopin and Schumann in 2010 and in partnership with London’s Barbican, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Carnegie Hall, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the San Francisco Symphony, Ax has commissioned new works from composers John Adams, Peter Lieberson and Osvaldo Golijov for three recital programs to be presented in each of those cities with colleagues Yo-Yo Ma and Dawn Upshaw. He recently toured Asia with the New York Philharmonic on their first tour with Music Director Alan Gilbert, as well as Europe with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe under James Conlon and the Pittsburgh Symphony under Manfred Honeck. As a regular visitor in subscription concerts, he will return to Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston during the spring. Ax has been an exclusive Sony Classical recording artist since 1987. He has received Grammy Awards for the second and third volumes of his cycle of Haydn’s piano sonatas and has also made a series of Grammy-winning recordings with Ma of the Beethoven and Brahms sonatas for cello and piano.