Ida
Kavafian, Violin
Violinist
Ida Kavafian opened this season of the Puerto Rico
Symphony Orchestra playing Prokofiev's First Violin
Concerto. She then returned to Interlochen Center
for the Arts, where she spent much of her musical
youth, to perform Michael Daugherty's violin concerto,
Fire and Blood, a work she premiered in 2003 with
the Detroit Symphony.
This
season she also tours with the Interlochen Orchestra,
visiting Chicago,
Cleveland, and Detroit.
Performances with her piano quartet, OPUS ONE,
include the premiere of a new work jointly commissioned
by
the quartet and Music from Angel Fire, of which she
has been the artistic director for 21 years. OPUS
ONE recently recorded both Dvorak piano quartets. |
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In
the fall Ms. Kavafian joined the faculty of the new Conservatory
of Music at Bard College, and in the spring she will participate
in the premiere of a new work by Michael Daugherty for solo
violin and mixed ensemble, commissioned by the Chamber Music
Society.
She
has appeared as soloist with leading orchestras and festivals,
in recital, in duo performance with her sister,
Ani, and as a guest with such ensembles as the Guarneri,
Orion, and American quartets. She has served on the board
of Chamber Music America and for six years was violinist
of the Beaux Arts Trio. She has also toured and recorded
with jazz artists Chick Corea and Wynton Marsalis, and
has had a solo feature on CBS' Sunday Morning.
A
graduate of The Juilliard School, where she studied with
Oscar Shumsky, she made her debut under the auspices of Young
Concert Artists and is the recipient
of an Avery Fisher Career Grant. She lives in Connecticut with her husband,
CMS Artist Member violist Steven Tenenbom, where she breeds
and trains prize-winning
Vizslas--with great success. One of her dogs, Billie, was named Number One
Vizsla in the country in 2003.
A
faculty member of The Curtis Institute of Music, Ms.
Kavafian has been an Artist Member of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln
Center since 1989.
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