Violinists including Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman and Joshua Bell have also performed as conductors. Former Dallas Symphony music director Jaap van Zweden was concertmaster of Amsterdam’s ...

A child prodigy from Tel Aviv, Israel, Perlman heard a violin performance on the radio at age 3 and fell in love. About 10 years later, in 1958, he made his U.S. debut on “The Ed Sullivan Show ...