Ida Kavafian

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Ida Kavafian ( Armenian Իդա Քավաֆյան ; born October 29, 1952 in Istanbul ) is an American violinist, violist and music teacher of Turkish-Armenian origin.

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Kavafian was born in Istanbul in 1952 to Armenian parents. She came to the USA with her family in 1956 and began violin training in Detroit at the age of six with Ara Zerounian , which she continued with Mischa Mischakoff . From 1969 to 1975 she studied at the Juilliard School with Oscar Shumsky and Ivan Gamalian , and in 1973 she won the Vianna da Motta International Violin Competition in Lisbon. As a winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions , she made her debut in 1978 with a recital at Carnegie Hall . In the same year she became a member of the Tashi Ensemble of pianist Peter Serkin (with Richard Stoltzman and Fred Sherry ), with whom she made her debut as a soloist with the Young Concert Artists .

Her collaboration with her sister Ani Kavafian began in 1983 with a performance at Carnegie Hall . From 1983-84 she toured with Chick Corea ( Septet ). From 1989 to 1993 and from 1996 to 2002 she was a member of the Chamber Music Society , from 1992 to 1998 of the Beaux Arts Trio . Other musical partners were the Guarneri , the Orion, the Shanghai and the American String Quartet , Wynton Marsalis , Mark O'Connor , Marty Krystall and others.

In 1998 she founded her own string quartet Opus One with Anne-Marie McDermott , her husband Steven Tenenbom and Peter Wiley . Her repertoire includes works by Mozart , Beethoven and Mendelssohn as well as compositions by contemporary composers such as Ruth Crawford Seeger , Charles Wuorinen and Toru Takemitsu , who wrote a violin concerto for them.

Kavafian has been teaching at the Curtis Institute of Music since 1998 , where she received the Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2013 . She also taught at the Juilliard School and the Bard College Conservatory of Music . For more than 30 years she directed the Music from Angel Fire festival , in whose program for young artists more than 200 students from the Curtis Institute took part. For ten years she was the artistic director of the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival .

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SURNAME Kavafian, Ida
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American violinist, violist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul