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December 8 at Baird Auditorium: A rare opportunity to see violist Kim Kashkashian in
concert with National Treasure of Armenia, composer/pianist
Tigran Mansurian Performing Classical and Traditional Armenian Music � Contact: Gail Wein: (202) 744-2472 ClassicalCommunications@gmail.com � � November 19, 2009
For Immediate
Release World-renowned violist Kim Kashkashian teams with
composer/pianist Tigran Mansurian and multi-faceted
percussionist�Robyn Schulkowsky to perform compositions by Mansurian (Armenia�s
most famous composer and a national treasure) as well as a selection of his stunning arrangements
of music by the revered Armenian visionary Komitas
Vardapet.� �This
concert is a rare opportunity to hear these musicians come together in riveting
live performances of Armenian masterworks. Washington,
DC: December 8th - 7:30
PM at Baird Auditorium Smithsonian Museum of Natural
History 10th St. and
Constitution Ave NW Washington, DC 202-633-3030 www.residentassociates.org Tickets: $20 for Smithsonian Associates Members/$25 General Public � Presented by the Embassy of
Armenia and the Smithsonian Associates � BIOGRAPHIES � Born
in Detroit, Kim Kashkashian is a viola player of Armenian extraction. She studied
with Walter Trampler and Karen Tuttle at the Peabody Conservatory. Her
international career began with major successes at the Lionel Tertis and Munich
competitions (among others), followed by appearances with leading orchestras
and conductors. She played chamber music with such figures as Gidon Kremer,
Yo-Yo Ma and several leading string quartets and was soon appearing on a
regular basis at the Marlboro, Santa Fe, Spoleto, Mostly Mozart, Lockenhaus and
Salzburg festivals. Kashkashian has worked closely with such composers as
Gy�rgy Kurt�g, Tigran Mansurian, Sofia Gubaidulina and Giya Kancheli. The
compositions and transcriptions especially written for her have considerably
enlarged the viola repertoire. Her many award-winning recordings for ECM
feature not only orchestral works but duo releases with the pianist Robert
Levin and the percussionist Robyn Schulkowsky, including the two Brahms
sonatas, the viola music of Paul Hindemith, the album 'Voci' with works by
Luciano Berio and several performances of works by Tigran Mansurian. She held
professorships at Freiburg and Berlin before receiving an appointment to the
New England Conservatory, Boston, in 2000. � Tigran
Mansurian
was born in Beirut to Armenian parents. In 1947 his family returned to Yerevan.
After taking his doctorate there in 1968 he began teaching at the local
conservatory, serving as its director in � the
early 1990s. His artistic evolution is noteworthy for his increasingly critical
confrontation with the western avant-garde. His mature style incorporates a
deep study of medieval Armenian church music and various forms of folk music as
well as the western classical legacy. Mansurian's oeuvre includes chamber
music, orchestral and vocal works. Much of it has been issued by ECM in
outstanding recordings with artists of the calibre of Kim Kashkashian, the
Rosamunde Quartet, Jan Garbarek, the Hilliard Ensemble and the Munich Chamber
Orchestra under its director Christoph Poppen. Performers of the stature of
Oleg Kagan, Natalia Gutman and Alexei Lubimov have performed his music. Today
Mansurian lives in Yerevan and Los Angeles and is considered the leading
contemporary composer of Armenia. � Born and raised in the shadow of
Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, percussionist Robyn Schulkowsky has been an innovator and collaborator throughout her
life. Since 1998, as founder of Rhythm Lab, Schulkowsky has brought drumming workshops to cities worldwide, incorporating
indigenous drumming styles and patterns from around the globe, and involving
students, professionals and aficionados alike in workshops, study, and
concerts. An active musician on five
continents, Schulkowsky moved to Germany during a heyday of experimental and
adventurous classical composition.� She has premiered and recorded some of
the most important works in the 20th and 21st century,
working with composers such as Sofia Gubaidulina, Karlheinz Stockhausen,
Christian Wolff, Kevin Volans, John Cage, Morton Feldman and Iannis Xenakis,
presenting their works in tours over most of the planet.� She is a
composer herself:� In 2008 she premiered her opera The Child of the Sea
Otter in Germany. � � 2009 East
Coast Tour Details � Boston:
�December 2nd - 8:00 PM at Jordan Hall http://necmusic.edu/hayren-concert � Philadelphia:
�December 6th - 3:00 PM at the Settlement Music School
presented by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society http://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/string-recitals/product/kim-kashkashian-viola/ ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������
New York City:
�December 6th - 9:30 PM at Le Poisson Rouge http://lepoissonrouge.com/events/artist/794 � Washington,
DC: �December 8th - 7:30 PM at Baird Auditorium, Smithsonian
Museum of Natural History http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?performanceNumber=219257 � � # # # |
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