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KIM KASHKASHIAN,
viola
Born in Michigan, Kim Kashkashian studied
viola at the Peabody Conservatory under Kar-
en Tuttle and Walter Trampler, later earning a
master’s degree at the New School of Music in
Philadelphia. Since
, she has taught viola
and chamber music at the New England Con-
servatory, and in
she was elected a fellow
of the American Academy of Arts and Scienc-
es. She was a prizewinner of the
ARD In-
ternational Music Competition in Munich and
the inaugural Lionel Tertis International Viola
Competition the same year. Kashkashian is also
an award-winning recording artist, receiving
the Edison Prize in
for an album of sona-
tas by Brahms; the
Cannes Classical Award
for her recording of concertos by Bartók, Eöt-
vös, and Kurtág; and a Grammy Award in
for
Kurtág and Ligeti: Music for Viola
. She has
worked with Eötvös, Kurtág, and other compos-
ers—including Lera Auerbach, Giya Kancheli,
omas Larcher, Tigran Mansurian, Arvo Pärt,
Krzysztof Penderecki, Alfred Schnittke, and
Ken Ueno—to help enrich the repertoire for
viola. Kashkashian also has long-standing duo
performance partnerships with pianist Robert
Levin and percussionist Robyn Schulkowsky,
and she has performed in a quartet with violin-
ists Gidon Kremer and Daniel Phillips and cel-
list Yo-Yo Ma. She has also collaborated with the
Tokyo, Guarneri, and Orion String Quartets and
many other artists through regular appearances
at such festivals as Verbier, Salzburg, Locken-
haus, Marlboro, and Ravinia, as well as recitals
in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh,
Cleveland, Frankfurt, Berlin, Paris, Athens, and
Tokyo. As a soloist, Kashkashian has performed
with the orchestras of Berlin, London, Vienna,
Milan, New York, Cleveland, and many others.
She is a founding member of Music for Food, an
initiative by musicians to ght hunger in their
home communities. Kim Kashkashian has been
on the faculty of Ravinia’s Steans Music Insti-
tute nearly every year since
, the same year
she made her Ravinia debut. Tonight marks her
eighth performance at the festival.
KENNETH OLSEN,
cello
e assistant principal cellist of the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra since
, Kenneth Ol-
sen began studying his instrument at age . He
made his recital debut at age as the winner of
the
Anthony R. Stefan Scholarship Compe-
tition, and he earned a bachelor’s degree at the
Cleveland Institute of Music under the guidance
of Richard Aaron, also winning the school’s
concerto competition. A er graduate studies
with Joel Krosnick at
e Juilliard School and
Luis Garcia-Renart at Bard College, as well as
master classes with Steven Isserlis, Lynn Harrell,
Gary Ho man, Paul Katz, and Marc Johnson,
Olsen won rst prize in the Aspen Music Festi-
val’s Nakamichi Cello Competition and second
prize in the
Holland-America Music Soci-
ety Competition. A native of New York, he was
a founding member of the East Coast Cham-
ber Ensemble, a conductorless string orchestra
comprising young musicians from orchestras
and ensembles all over the country. In addition
to summer studies at the Aspen, Saratoga, and
Tanglewood Music Festivals, Kenneth Olsen at-
tended Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute in
as a member of the Amrita String Quartet and in
as a solo artist. A er joining the CSO, he
performed in Ravinia chamber concerts in
and with other soloists from the CSO in
,
, and
.
TIMOTHY EDDY,
cello
Cellist Timothy Eddy was a prizewinner of the
Gaspar Cassado International Competi-
tion in Italy, as well as the Dealy Competition in
Dallas and the Denver Symphony Guild. Earn-
ing both bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the
Manhattan School of Music as a student of Lu-
igi Silva and Bernard Greenhouse, he has been
a professor of cello at e Juilliard School since
and is also on the faculty of the Mannes
College of Music. He previously was on the sta s
of SUNY–Stony Brook, where he is professor
emeritus, and the New England Conservatory,
as well as a frequent instructor at the Isaac Stern
Chamber Music Workshops at Carnegie Hall. As
a founding member of the Orion String Quartet,
a resident ensemble of the Chamber Music So-
ciety of Lincoln Center, Eddy has performed at
such festivals as Mostly Mozart, Ravinia, Aspen,
Santa Fe, Marlboro, Lockenhaus, Spoleto, and
Sarasota. He was previously a member of the
Galimir Quartet, the New York Philomusica,
and the Bach Aria Group. Eddy regularly collab-
orates in recital with pianist Gilbert Kalish, and
he has been a soloist with such ensembles as the
Dallas, Colorado, Jacksonville, North Carolina,
and Stamford Symphony Orchestras. Also a
frequent recording artist, his performances can
be heard on such labels as Angel, Arabesque,
Columbia, CRI, Delos, Musical Heritage, New
World, Nonesuch, Vanguard, Vox, and Sony
Classical. Timothy Eddy has been a frequent
member of the Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute
faculty since
, having made his debut at the
festival a decade earlier with the Orion String
Quartet. Tonight he makes his th concert ap-
pearance at Ravinia.
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