Born in Detroit, Michigan, of Armenian descent, violist Kim Kashkashian enjoys an international career as a chamber musician and viola soloist. She is a regular guest artist to the festivals in Marlboro, Lockenhaus, and Salzburg; and ongoing collaborator with pianist Robert Levin, percussionist Robyn Schulkowsky, and harpsichordist Robert Hill.

As a recording artist, Kashkashian’s extensive discography includes concerti of Britten, Penderecki, Kancheli, and Schnittke; sonatas of Hindemith and Shostakovich; chamber music of Bach and Schumann; the Brahms Sonatas with Robert Levin, which won the 1999 Edison Prize; and concertos of Bartók, Eötvös, and Kurtág, which was released in June 2000 and won the Cannes prize for chamber music. In her continuous work with composers such as Gubaidulina, Bouchard, Jolas, Penderecki, Kancheli, Kurtág, Mansurian, and Eötvös; she has extensively enlarged the relatively small repertoire for viola with a number of well-known works.

B.M., Peabody Conservatory of Music. Viola with Walter Trampler and Karen Tuttle. Recordings on DGG, Sony, and ECM. Prizes in ARD Munich and Lionel Tertis Competitions. Former faculty of University of Indiana and conservatories in Freiburg and Berlin, Germany. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.