Performances + Events
January 25–26
Due to anticipated weather conditions, NEC will close for all activities, classes, concerts, and events at 12:00 p.m. on Sunday, January 25 and remain closed through Monday, January 26. Normal operations will resume on Tuesday, January 27. For more information about specific events, please visit the Performances + Events calendar.
Kim Kashkashian
Education and Training
BM, Peabody Conservatory of Music; MM, New School of Music Philadelphia. Viola with Walter Trampler and Karen Tuttle.
Awards and Recognition
Honorable Member of the Royal Academy of Music 2020
ASTA Artist Teacher Award 2016
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2016
George Peabody Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Music in America '15'16
Grammy Award in the "Best Classical Instrumental Solo," 2012
Edison Prize, 1999
Cannes Classical Award, 2001
Kim Kashkashian made history when she won the coveted Grammy Award — the first ever given to a violist — for her ECM recording of Ligeti and Kurtag solo viola works.
She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,and of the Royal Academy of Music.
Ms. Kashkashian performed as viola soloist with the orchestras of Berlin, London, Vienna, Milan, Amsterdam, New York and Cleveland in collaboration with Eschenbach, Mehta, Welser-Moest, Kocsis, Dennis Russel Davies, Blomstedt, and Holliger.
She is a member of Trio Tre Voce, and the long-standing duo partner of pianist Robert Levin in the great halls of Vienna, Rome, Paris, Berlin, Munich, Tokyo, Athens, London, New York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and Philadelphia.
Ms. Kashkashian worked closely with György Kurtág, Krzysztof Penderecki, Alfred Schnittke, Giya Kancheli, and Arvo Pärt and commissioned compositions from Eötvös, Ken Ueno, Betty Olivero, Thomas Larcher, Lera Auerbach, Tigran Mansurian, and Toshio Hosokawa.
More than 25 solo albums on ECM label have garnered a Grammy, a Cannes Classical Award, the Edison Prize and the Opus Klassik Prize.
Ms. Kashkashian is Founder of “Music for Food”, a musician-led hunger relief initiative that offers a model for all musicians who wish to act as artist-citizens in their home communities. Music for Food has created more than one and a half million meals for people in need.
To learn more, please go to musicforfood.net or kimkashkashian.com.
Curriculum Vitae
BM, Peabody Conservatory of Music; MM, New School of Music Philadelphia. Viola with Walter Trampler and Karen Tuttle.
- Honorable Member of the Royal Academy of Music 2020
- ASTA Artist Teacher Award 2016
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2016
- George Peabody Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Music in America '15'16
- Grammy Award in the "Best Classical Instrumental Solo," 2012
- Edison Prize, 1999
- Cannes Classical Award, 2001
Affiliated Departments and Programs
Strings
