Front Row Mainstage: Ani Kavafian

Experience the peerless artistry of Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) with newly curated full-length HD concerts featuring archival video recordings woven together into never-before-heard concert pairings. This event will stream online for free.

Artists
Alessio Bax, piano
Orion Weiss, piano
Carter Brey, Cello

Program
Brahms Scherzo, WoO 2, from “F-A-E” Sonata for Violin and Piano (1853) Original performance January 29, 2017
Dvořák Trio in F minor for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 65 (1883) Original performance May 7, 2017

Violinist Ani Kavafian enjoys a prolific career as a soloist, chamber musician, and professor. She has performed with many of America’s leading orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and San Francisco Symphony. In the 2019-20 season, she continues her longtime association as an artist of the Chamber Music Society with appearances in New York and on tour. Last summer she participated in several music festivals including the Heifetz International Institute and the Sarasota Chamber Music, Bridgehampton, Meadowmount, Norfolk, and Angel Fire festivals. She and her sister, violinist and violist Ida Kavafian, have performed with the symphonies of Detroit, Colorado, Tucson, San Antonio, and Cincinnati, and have recorded the music of Mozart and Sarasate. She is a Full Professor at Yale University and has appeared at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall numerous times with colleagues and students from Yale. She has received an Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Young Concert Artists International Auditions award, and has appeared at the White House on three occasions. Born in Istanbul of Armenian heritage, Ms. Kavafian studied violin in the US with Ara Zerounian and Mischa Mischakoff. She received her master’s degree from The Juilliard School under Ivan Galamian. She plays the 1736 Muir McKenzie Stradivarius violin.

Thursday, October 29, 2020 at 7:30pm EDT.
The video will remain available on demand for one week.
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