has two adult sons, Benjamin and Raphael. Awards Leeds International Piano Competition 1972 Leeds International Piano Competition First Prize Seventh International Schumann Festival 2000 Robert Schumann Society Claudio Arrau Memorial Medal Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance 1989 Bartók: Sonata for Two Pianos & Percussion Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance 2003 Chopin: Études, Opp. 10, 25 1999 Bach: English Suites Nos. 1, 3 and 6 Gramophone Award Gramophone Award for best concerto recording, 1984, Piano Concertos 15 and 16 of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Gramophone Award for best concerto recording, 1986, Piano Concertos 3 and 4 of Ludwig van Beethoven Gramophone Award for best instrumental recording, 1986, works of Franz Schubert and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with Radu Lupu Gramophone Award for best instrumental recording, 1995, works of Frédéric Chopin Gramophone Award for best instrumental recording, 1996, works of George Frideric Handel and Domenico Scarlatti Gramophone Award for best instrumental recording, 2001, Goldberg Variations by Johann Sebastian Bach Gramophone Award for best instrumental recording, 2003, Etudes by Frédéric Chopin Gramophone Award for best instrumental recording, 2011, piano music of Johannes Brahms Gramophone Award for best instrumental recording, 2016, Six French Suites by Johann Sebastian Bach Perahia is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Music and Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music (1985). In 2007 he was elected to an Honorary Fellowship of Jesus College, Cambridge. On March 8, 2004, Queen Elizabeth II made him an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire. (This entitles him to use the post-nominal letters KBE, but not to the title "Sir".) In 2012 he was voted into the inaugural Gramophone Hall of Fame. In 2012 he was awarded the Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance from Northwestern University. In 2013 he was awarded the Royal Academy of Music Bach Prize In 2015 he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Arts (with Jessye Norman). A species of solitary bee from Israel was named in his honour in 2016. Discography 1970s Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6; Fantasiestücke, Op. 12 (1973) Chopin: The Chopin Preludes. (1975) Schumann: Études Symphoniques op. 13 & Études Posthumes; Papillons (1977) 1980s Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy, Op. 15; Schumann: Fantasy in C major, Op. 17 (1986) Mozart, Beethoven: Quintets for piano and winds (1986) Mozart: Sonata (K. 448); Schubert: Piano Sonata for four hands (1986; with Radu Lupu) Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 and 4