Kim Kashkashian
Kim Kashkashian is an American violist, born in Detroit in 1952 to an Armenian-American family. She studied with Walter Trampler and Karen Tuttle at the Peabody Conservatory, taught in Bloomington, Freiburg and Berlin, and has been on the viola and chamber music faculty of the New England Conservatory in Boston since 2000. Her ECM catalogue runs from Bach and Brahms to Berio, Kurtág and Tigran Mansurian. Kashkashian won the 2013 Grammy for Best Classical Instrumental Solo with Kurtág / Ligeti: Music for Viola.
