Violinist Ani Kavafian enjoys a prolific career as a recitalist, chamber musician and professor. She has performed with many of America’s leading orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, and the San Francisco Symphony.

This season, she will continue her longtime association as an artist member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center with appearances in NYC, and around the U.S.. She will be conducting master classes at Oberlin College as well as in Detroit, and Boulder. This past summer she participated at festivals including Chamber Music Northwest, the Heifetz Institute, Sarasota Music Festival, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Great Lakes Festival, the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, and Virtuoso Bel Canto Festival in Lucca, Italy.

Ms. Kavafian became a professor of Violin at Yale University in 2006 and will be performing the full production of Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale at Zamkel Hall in 2018 with colleagues and students from Yale. She has received the Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Young Concert Artists International Auditions award and has appeared at the White House on three separate occasions.

Her recordings can be heard on the Nonesuch, RCA, Columbia, Arabesque, and Delos labels. Ms. Kavafian and Kenneth Cooper have recorded Bach’s Six Sonatas for Violin and Fortepiano on Kleos Classics of Helicon Records. A recording of string trios by Mozart and Beethoven by the Trio da Salo has also been released on Kleos. Mozart Piano and Violin Sonatas with pianist Jorge Federico Osario was recently released by Artek