Kim Kashkashian

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Kim Kashkashian (born August 31, 1952 in Detroit, Michigan) is an Armenian-American violist who won the 2nd place prize at the 1980 Lionel Tertis Competition and the 1980 ARD International Music Competition in Munich. She has been featured on over 30 albums and performs pieces from both classical and contemporary composers, working among others with Gidon Kremer, the Vienna Philharmonic and Nikolaus Harnoncourt. She also played the violin in the soundtrack of the film Ulysses' Gaze, together with Eleni Karaindrou. Her albums have won awards, notably the 1999 Edison Prize and the Cannes Prize for Chamber Music in 2000.

Kashkashian currently teaches at the New England Conservatory of Music. Before she taught at Freiburg and in Berlin.