Music camps have helped define Toby Perlman’s life. She met her husband, virtuoso violinist Itzhak Perlman, at one in the Adirondacks of New York when she was a student. After she was married and raising a family, Toby founded a summer music camp for strings students on Long Island in 1994. A decade later, the Perlman Music Program added a winter residency at USF Sarasota Manatee.
Is it OK to call the Perlman Music Program “camp”? It is, confirms Toby in a video interview. “That’s what we call it and that’s what we want it to feel like,” she says.
This year, after more than two decades at the USF campus, Perlman Music Program Suncoast is moving its free rehearsals and masterclasses to venues near downtown…