{"id":4036,"date":"2025-07-29T08:23:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T06:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/teacher\/kim-kashkashian\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T08:23:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T06:23:20","slug":"kim-kashkashian","status":"publish","type":"teacher","link":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/en\/teacher\/kim-kashkashian\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Kashkashian"},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"instrument":[44],"class_list":["post-4036","teacher","type-teacher","status-publish","hentry","instrument-viola-en","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":{"name":"Kashkashian","first_name":"Kim","photo":822,"instrument":[44],"teacher_biography":"Hailed as \u201can artist who combines a probing, restless intellect with enormous beauty of tone,\u201d Ms. Kashkashians\u2019 work as performing and recording artist and pedagogue has been recognized worldwide.\u00a0She won the coveted Grammy Award for her recording of Ligeti and Kurtag solo viola works in 2013, and received the George Peabody Medal and Switzerland\u2019s Golden Bow Award for her contributions to music. In 2016, she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2020, was named an Honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music.\u00a0As soloist Kashkashian has appeared with the orchestras of Berlin, London, Vienna, Milan, New York and Cleveland in collaboration with Eschenbach, Mehta, Welser-Moest, Kocsis, Dennis Russel Davies, Blomstedt, and Holliger.\u00a0Recital appearances include the great halls of Vienna, Rome, Paris, Berlin, Munich, Tokyo, Athens, London, New York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and Philadelphia where Ms. Kashkashian appears with the Trio Tre Voce, and in duo partnerships with pianist Robert Levin and percussionist Robyn Schulkowsky.\u00a0She is also a regular participant at the Verbier, Salzburg, Lockenhaus, Marlboro, and Ravinia festivals.\u00a0Pursuing her lifelong search for new directions in music making, Ms. Kashkashian has forged creative relationships with the world\u2019s leading composers\u2014including Gy\u00f6rgyKurt\u00e1g, Krzysztof Penderecki, Alfred Schnittke, GiyaKancheli, and ArvoP\u00e4rt and commissioned compositions from E\u00f6tv\u00f6s, Ken Ueno, Betty Olivero, Thomas Larcher, LeraAuerbach, Tigran Mansurian, and Toshio Hosokawa.\u00a0Ms. Kashkashian\u2019s long association with the ECM label has yielded a discography that has garnered an abundance of praise and international awards\u2014including a Grammy in 2013 for her solo recording of works by Gy\u00f6rgyLigeti and Gy\u00f6rgyKurt\u00e1g, a Cannes Classical Award in 2001 for her recording of the viola concertos of Kurt\u00e1g, B\u00e9laBart\u00f3k, and P\u00e9terE\u00f6tv\u00f6s, and an Edison Prize in 1999 for her recording with pianist Robert Levin of the sonatas of Johannes Brahms. Ms. Kashkashian\u2019s most recent recording of the six unaccompanied suites of J.S. Bach, was released to critical acclaim in October 2018 and garnered the Opus Klassik Prize.\u00a0Ms. Kashkashian, who studied with Karen Tuttle and Walter Trampler at Baltimore\u2019s Peabody Conservatory and Felix Galimir at Vermont\u2019s Marlboro Festival has held teaching positions at Indiana University, the Freiburg Hochschulef\u00fcrMusik, and the Hans EislerHochschule of Berlin. Currently, Ms. Kashkashian makes her home in Boston where she coaches chamber music and viola at New England Conservatory of Music.\u00a0Ms. Kashkashian is Founder and Artistic Director of \u201cMusic for Food\u201d a musician-led hunger relief initiative that to date has presented hundreds of artists in concert which have created more than one and a half million free meals for people in need.\u00a0\u00a0Photo by Claire Stefani","accomplishments":[{"text_accomplishments":"She coaches chamber music and viola at New England Conservatory of Music."},{"text_accomplishments":"She won a Grammy Award for her recording of Ligeti and Kurtag solo viola works in 2013"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/teacher\/4036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/teacher"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/teacher"}],"acf:term":[{"embeddable":true,"taxonomy":"instrument","href":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/instrument\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"instrument","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/instrument?post=4036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}