About the Artist
Violinist Ani Kavafian’s career has been marked by great diversity with performances as soloist with major orchestras, as a chamber musician, and as a recitalist. She is also in great demand as a teacher, having taught at Mannes School of Music, Manhattan, Queens College, McGill University, and suny-Stony Brook, capped by her appointment as Professor in the Practice of Violin at the Yale School of Music in 2006. Ms. Kavafian has appeared as soloist with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia and Cleveland Orchestras, and the Los Angeles and St. Paul Chamber Orchestras. Along with her sister, Ida, she has appeared around the country in recital as well as soloists with orchestras.
An artist member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 1979, Ani Kavafian continues to tour around the United States as well as in Canada and Asia. Her appearances at Alice Tully Hall in New York City have now numbered well over 1000. Ms. Kavafian is also a member of Trio da Salo with violist Barbara Westphal and cellist Gustav Rivinius. She is a founding member of The Triton Horn Trio with William Purvis and Mihae Lee. Ms. Kavafian has also joined with clarinetist David Shifrin and pianist Andre-Michel Schub and with them tours around the country as both violinist and violist. Along with cellist Carter Brey, she is the artistic director of the New Jersey chamber music series Mostly Music. In 1979 Ms. Kavafian was awarded the Avery Fisher Prize. She has appeared at the White House on three occasions and has been featured on many network and PBS television music specials. Recently Ms. Kavafian and Kenneth Cooper released a live recording of Bach’s Six Sonatas for violin and fortepiano on the Kleos Classics label. In 2007, a recording of Mozart piano and violin sonatas with pianist Jorge Federico Osorio was released by Artek.