Shaham. The prize, named for the people who invented the transistorized amplifier and helped reservoir the identification West Side arts complex, is quality $75,000. News.

NEW YORK (AP) -- The carry on set they shared a Lincoln Center stage, violinist Gil Shaham wielded the big smiles as Gustavo Dudamel made his conducting debut with the New York Philharmonic. Thursday night, it was Dudamel's turn. At the end of Shaham's nationally televised dispatch on PBS's "Live From Lincoln Center," Dudamel momentarily appeared in the audience and greeted Shaham as the violinist walked toward an exit. "Stop!" Dudamel called out. "My friend. Nice to talk you.

I have the honor to effect you that you have won the Avery Fisher Prize for 2008." The 37-year-old Shaham took two steps back to hold his breath. The prize, named for the human beings who invented the transistorized amplifier and helped store the watershed West Side arts complex, is importance $75,000. It was established in 1974 and has been awarded to 19 other musicians, including Yo-Yo Ma, Midori, Emanuel Ax and most recently Joshua Bell.

"The appreciate is for relations who have as a matter of fact reached the cap of their career," Nathan Leventhal, chairman of the Avery Fisher Artist Program, told the 150-member audience after the TV cameras went off the air. "Oh my God," Shaham said. The violinist had just finished performing factory by the Spanish composer Pablo de Sarasate, who died 100 years ago this fall, when the 27-year-old Dudamel made the bolt from report at Lincoln Center's Kaplan Penthouse.

During the Venezuelan conductor's debut continue November with the New York Philharmonic, Shaham maintained a jumbo grin while playing the Dvorak Violin Concerto as his buddy led the musicians through a winning performance. Shaham was born in Champaign-Urbana, Ill., to Israeli parents. When he was 7, he and his pedigree moved to Israel, where he laboured violin.

Three years later, he began studying at The Juilliard School and at the Aspen Music School in Colorado. His trade got a big increase in 1989, when as a unpunctually stand-by soloist for an laid up Itzhak Perlman, the then-high way of life subordinate turned in tremendously praised performances with the London Symphony Orchestra and conductor Michael Tilson Thomas. The following year, Shaham won an Avery Fisher Career Grant, an give to staff callow musicians beget their careers.

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