VC LIVE | Bowdoin Festival presents Kim Kashkashian

Tune in here on Sunday, July 23 at 2:00PM (ET) for a special solo recital featuring works written by Kurtág and Britten

We're coming to you direct from the Bowdoin International Music Festival on Sunday afternoon for a special solo recital at the Studzinski Recital Hall. The festival was founded in 1964 and engages exceptional students and enthusiastic audiences through world-class education and performances. Each summer, 250 students from more than 20 countries and nearly every state attend the festival to study with distinguished faculty and guest artists.

This concert features violist Kim Kashkashian performing works by Kurtág and Britten.

PROGRAM:

György Kurtág

Signs, Games and Messages

Kim Kashkashian, viola

Benjamin Britten

Lachrymae, Op. 48

Kim Kashkashian, viola • Pei-Shan Lee, piano

Kim Kashkashian's work as an artist and pedagogue has been recognized worldwide.

She won the Grammy Award for her recording of Ligeti and Kurtag solo viola works in 2013, and received the George Peabody Medal and Switzerland’s Golden Bow Award for her contributions to music. In 2016, she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2020, was named an Honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music.

Kashkashian is the Founder and Artistic Director of “Music for Food,” a musician-led hunger relief initiative that has presented hundreds of artists in concert, creating more than one and a half million free meals for people in need.