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ANI KAVAFIAN

Ani Kavafian continues to enjoy a prolific and prestigious career as a soloist, chamber musician and professor. She has performed with major orchestras in the United States including The New York Philharmonic, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. 

Ms. Kavafian has appeared at the White House on three separate occasions for three different presidents. She is in high demand as a visiting professor and has conducted master classes at universities all over the United States as well as at workshops in Korea, Japan and Beijing. Ms. Kavafian recently recorded a series of master class videos for the Korean company, LG. She has been a periodic guest concertmaster of the Seattle Symphony and was concertmaster of the New Haven Symphony for 8 years appearing frequently as soloist with both orchestras. 

Having taught at Mannes College, Manhattan School of Music, McGill University in Montreal and Stony Brook University, she is now a full professor at Yale University.

She received the Avery Fisher Career Grant and is the winner of the Young Concert Artist International Auditions and is presently the president of their Alumni Organization. She has been featured on many network and PBS television specials. Her recordings include the Bach Sonatas with Kenneth Cooper and Mozart Sonatas with Jorge Federico Osorio.

Born in Istanbul, Turkey of Armenian heritage, Ms. Kavafian began piano lessons at the age of three. At age nine, in the United States, she began violin studies with Ara Zerounian and then with Mischa Mischakoff. She went on to study the violin at the Juilliard School with Ivan Galamian receiving a Master of Science degree with highest honors. 

Throughout her career, Ms.kavafian has appeared in major music festivals such as Santa Fe, Schleswig Holstein, Music @Menlo, and Chamber Music Northwest as well as the Sarasota Chamber Music Festival the Heifetz International Institute, Norfolk and Angel Fire, NM. During the 2020-2021 season, Ms. Kavafian will continue her longtime association as a violinist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, performing in NYC and on tour. 

Ms. Kavafian plays a 1736 Stradivarius violin, the “Muir MacKenzie”.

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