AboutBorn 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. |
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