1. Kim Kashkashian was born on August 31,1952 and is an American violist.
16 Facts About Kim Kashkashian
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Kim Kashkashian has spent her career in the US and Europe and collaborated with many major contemporary composers.
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Kim Kashkashian is recognized as one of the world's top violists.
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Kim Kashkashian began playing the violin at the age of eight.
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Kim Kashkashian first studied with Ara Zerounian, then continued her music education and switched to viola at the Interlochen Arts Academy beginning from the age 12.
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Kim Kashkashian studied at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore with Walter Trampler and Karen Tuttle.
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Kim Kashkashian then moved to Germany, where she began teaching at the Hochschule fur Musik in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1989 and the Hanns Eisler Hochschule fur Musik in Berlin.
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Kim Kashkashian returned to the United States in 2000 and began teaching viola and chamber music at New England Conservatory in Boston in fall 2000.
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Kim Kashkashian has been described as a "staunch proponent" of contemporary classical music.
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Kim Kashkashian has performed at the Metropolitan Museum of New York, Kaufmann Hall, New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall; other cities in the US, Europe and Japan.
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Kim Kashkashian regularly participates in the Ravina, Verbier Salzburg, Lockenhaus and Marlboro festivals.
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Kim Kashkashian is one of the founders and the Artistic Director of Music for Food, an initiative aimed at fighting hunger.
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Kim Kashkashian first visited Armenia, her ancestral homeland, in 1989.
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Kim Kashkashian has collaborated with the famed Armenian composer Tigran Mansurian.
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Kim Kashkashian is widely recognized as one of the world's top violists.
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Kim Kashkashian has received three nominations and has won one Grammy Award.