Kim Kashkashian (born August 31, 1952 in Detroit, Michigan) is an Armenian-American violist who won the 2nd place prize at the 1980 Lionel Tertis Competition and the 1980 ARD International Music Competition in Munich. Events 1056 - Byzantine Empress Theodora becomes ill dying suddenly a few days later without children to succeed the Throne Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Michigan ( is a Midwestern state of the United States of America. An Armenian-American is an American whose ancestors hail either wholly or partly from Armenia. This is a list of noted Viola players. Notable violists A Julia Rebekka Adler (b The ARD International Music Competition is the biggest international Competition in Germany for classical music She has been featured on over 30 albums and performs pieces from both classical and contemporary composers, working among others with Gidon Kremer, the Vienna Philharmonic and Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Gidon Kremer (Gidons Krēmers (born February 27, 1947) is a Latvian Violinist and conductor. The Vienna Philharmonic (in German: die Wiener Philharmoniker) is an Orchestra in Austria, regularly considered one of the finest in the WikipediaWikiProject Classical music#Biographical_infoboxes --> Nikolaus Harnoncourt ( Count Johann Nicolaus Graf de la Fontaine und She also played the violin in the soundtrack of the film Ulysses' Gaze, together with Eleni Karaindrou. Ulysses' Gaze ( To Vlemma tou Odyssea) ( 1995) is a Film directed by Theo Angelopoulos. Eleni Karaindrou (Ελένη Καραΐνδρου is a Greek Composer, born in Teichio. Her albums have won awards, notably the 1999 Edison Prize and the Cannes Prize for Chamber Music in 2000. The Edison Classical Music Awards are a collection of awards given annually to honor the best of the year's classical music recordings in eleven categories
Kashkashian currently teaches at the New England Conservatory of Music. Before she taught at Freiburg and in Berlin. Berlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany.