Vom Winde beweint / Viola Concerto

Born in Detroit, Michigan of Armenian descent, violist Kim Kashkashian graduated from the Peabody Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Walter Trampler and Karen Tuttle. Ms. Kashakshian was honored with top prizes in both the Munich and Lionel Tertis Viola Competitions. In further recognition of her talents, she received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts Solo Recital Program and the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music.
Kim Kashkashian has appeared as soloist with major orchestras in New York, Berlin, Vienna, London, Munich and Tokyo, and in recital at the Metropolitan Museum and the 92nd Street "Y" in New York, as well as the major halls in Amsterdam, Zurich, Paris, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington D.C.

Kashkashian works extensively with contemporary composers, including Alvin Brehm, Barbara Kolb, John Harbison, Giya Kancheli, Geörgy Kurtág, Sofia Gubaidulina, Krzysztof Penderecki and Alfred Schnittke.

An avid chamber musician, Ms. Kashakshian has been a frequent participant at the Marlboro Music Festival and has performed as guest artist with the Beaux Arts Trio, and the Tokyo, Guarneri and Emerson String Quartets.

Since 1985 Kashkashian has had six full length releases on the ECM New Series including her highly acclaimed double disc set of the complete sonatas for viola by Paul Hindemith.

Ms. Kashkashian lives in Germany and is professor of viola at the Freiburg Hochschule für Musik.