Featured Soloist: Kim Kashkashian
November 18 & 20, 2005

Grammy nominated violist Kim Kashkashian has established herself as one of the most accomplished artists of her generation. She has been hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as "an artist who combines a probing, restless musical intellect with enormous beauty of tone". The New York Times has joined in these accolades, praising her "rich, mellow timbre and impressive artistry".

In recent seasons, Kim Kashkashian has appeared as soloist with the major orchestras in New York, Berlin, Vienna, London, Milan, Munich and Tokyo including performances with Ricardo Chailly, Christoph Eschenbach and Riccardo Muti. She has performed recitals at the Metropolitan Museum and the 92nd Street "Y" in New York City, in Boston, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Cleveland and Los Angeles.

In her quest for new directions and forms, she has developed working relationships with such composers as Gubaidulina, Penderecki, Kancheli, Kurtág, Mansuriän, Pärt, Berio and Eotvos. Current ongoing chamber music partnerships include duos with pianist Robert Levin, percussionist Robyn Schulkowsky, and harpsichordist Robert Hill. She has performed with the Tokyo, Guarneri, and Galimir Quartets and toured with a unique quartet, which included violinists Gidon Kremer and Daniel Phillips and cellist Yo-Yo Ma.

Kashkashian records for ECM. Her discography ranges from the concertos of Bartok, Kurtag, Eotvos, Kancheli, Berio, Penderecki and Mansurian to the complete sonatas of Hindemith, Brahms and Shostakovich as well as works for viola da gamba by Bach. Her extensive teaching activities have included professorships at the University of Indiana and Sin Freiburg and Berlin, Germany. She currently teaches viola and chamber music at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. Born in Detroit, Michigan, of Armenian descent, Kim Kashkashian graduated from the Peabody Conservatory of Music where she studied with Walter Trampler and Karen Tuttle.

Ms. Kashkashian plays Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante with violinist Lucy Chapman Stolzman on November 18 & 20, 2005.

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