Kim Kashkashian, internationally recognized as a unique voice on the viola, was born of Armenian parents in Michigan. She studied the viola with Karen Tuttle and legendary violist Walter Trampler at ...

On ECM's superb and captivating Rothko Chapel an elite group of musicians interprets Morton Feldman's sublime title piece and several others by John Cage and, the father of western musical modernism, ...

It should come as no surprise that Kim Kashkashian didn't begin musical life as a violist. Few violists do. They usually play violin before being seduced by the noble sound of the slightly larger and ...

To listen to the music of the Russian-born composer and pianist Lera Auerbach is often to feel her communality with the spirit of Shostakovich. But when she actually arranges his music, the ...

In the hands of the master violist, this famous stretch of Bach’s music become body music, rooted in breath and wood and muscle. Save this story Save this story There are as many ways to play Bach ...

It's tough to say who the real star is this weekend at Severance Hall. As the composer of both major works on the program, Bela Bartok is a likely candidate. But so, too, is violist Kim Kashkashian, ...

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About two decades ago, the violist Kim Kashkashian learned a piece by the Hungarian composer Gyorgy Kurtag, a giant in avant-garde musical circles whose eminence stands in inverse proportion to the ...

A few weeks ago, a new CD by the violist Kim Kashkashian arrived in the mail. She plays pieces by Armenian and Israeli composers on the disc, and after popping it into the CD player, I was amazed to ...