featuring:
Kim Kashkashian, viola
Tigran Mansurian, piano
Robyn Schulkowsky, percussion

Performing music from Armenian composers Tigran Mansurian and Gomidas Vardabet.

Inspiring worldwide critical acclaim, violist Kim Kashkashian has been hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as "an artist who combines a probing, restless musical intellect with enormous beauty of tone." The New York Times has joined in these accolades, praising her "rich, mellow timbre and impressive artistry."

In recent seasons, Kim Kashkashian has appeared as soloist with the major orchestras in New York, Berlin, Vienna, London, Milan, Munich and Tokyo including performances with Ricardo Chailly, Christoph Eschenbach and Riccardo Muti. She has performed recitals at the Metropolitan Museum and the 92nd Street "Y" in New York City, in Boston, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Cleveland and Los Angeles and in many major music centers in Europe as Paris, London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Istanbul and Milan.

Listen: Kim Kashkashian on NPR's All Things Considered