The Center for Gifted Young Musicians
at Temple Music Prep
Master Class Series
featuring Ida Kavafian, Violin
2019 marked the versatile Ida Kavafian’s 35th year and final year as Artistic Director of the acclaimed festival, Music from Angel Fire in NM. For over forty years, she has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and was Violinist of the renowned Beaux Arts Trio. She has toured and recorded with diverse greats such as Chick Corea, Wynton Marsalis and Mark O’Connor, and was featured on CBS Sunday Morning. Ms. Kavafian premiered and recorded “Fire and Blood” by Michael Daugherty with the Detroit Symphony. Founder and Artistic Director for ten years of the Bravo! Colorado festival in Vail, co-founder of the ground breaking group TASHI more than forty years ago, Ms. Kavafian also co-founded OPUS ONE and Trio Valtorna. She holds the Nina von Maltzahn Chair in Violin Studies at the Curtis Institute, and was awarded the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. Born in Istanbul, Turkey of Armenian parentage, she began her studies with Ara Zerounian, continued with Mischa Mischakoff, then graduated with honors from the Juilliard School with Oscar Shumsky. Young Concert Artists presented her debut with pianist Peter Serkin. Married to violist Steven Tenenbom, Ms. Kavafian has found great success in another field, the breeding, training and showing of prize-winning Hungarian Vizsla dogs.
The Center for Gifted Young Musicians Master Class Series has been made possible, in part, by a generous donation from The Kessler Fund.
