Society of Peabody Alumni<\/strong><\/p>\n Citation for the Peabody Distinguished Alumni Award<\/p>\n Presented to<\/p>\n Kim Kashkashian<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n September 9, 2007<\/p>\n Kim Kashkashian, you attended Peabody to study with Karen Tuttle and eventually became her assistant. You were already a star as a student and have since established yourself as one of the most accomplished artists of your generation.<\/p>\n You have been hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as \u201can artist who combines a probing, restless musical intellect with enormous beauty of tone.\u201d The New York Times has praised your \u201crich, mellow timbre and impressive artistry.\u201d<\/p>\n You are that rare phenomenon, a star solo violist. You have appeared as soloist with the major orchestras in New York, Berlin, Vienna, London, Milan, Munich and Tokyo. You have been featured as the cover story of\u00a0Strings<\/em>\u00a0magazine and on\u00a0Saint Paul Sunday<\/em>\u00a0with Bill McGlaughlin.<\/p>\n Your extensive discography on ECM includes the Brahms Sonatas with Robert Levin, which won the 1999 Edison prize; and concertos of Bart\u00f3k, E\u00f6tv\u00f6s, and Kurt\u00e1g, which won the 2000 Cannes Classical Award for a premiere recording by Soloist with Orchestra.<\/p>\n In the spirit of many of Johns Hopkins\u2019 most distinguished alumni, you are in a constantquest for new directions and forms. You have developed working relationships with such composers as Gubaidulina, Penderecki, Kancheli, Kurt\u00e1g, Mansuri\u00e4n, P\u00e4rt, and E\u00f6tv\u00f6s. Current ongoing chamber music partnerships include duos with pianist Robert Levin, percussionist Robyn Schulkowsky, and harpsichordist Robert Hill. You have performed with the Tokyo, Guarneri, and Galimir Quartets and toured with a unique quartet, which included violinists, Gidon Kremer and Daniel Phillips, and cellist Yo-Yo- Ma.<\/p>\n Your lifelong dedication to teaching has taken you to faculty positions at New York\u2019s Mannes School (now Mannes College) of Music; Indiana University at Bloomington; the Freiburg Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik, and the Hans Eisler Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik in Germany; and here, at the New England Conservatory.<\/p>\n Kim Kashkashian, you have exemplified the Johns Hopkins tradition of excellence and brought credit to Peabody Conservatory and the University throughout your career. It is for all this that The Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association confers upon you the honor of the Distinguished Alumna Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Peabody Distinguished Alumni Award (2007) Society of Peabody Alumni Citation for the Peabody Distinguished Alumni Award Presented to Kim Kashkashian September 9, 2007 Kim Kashkashian, you attended Peabody to study […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":4895,"menu_order":26,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4974","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peabody.jhu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peabody.jhu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peabody.jhu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peabody.jhu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peabody.jhu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peabody.jhu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19568,"href":"https:\/\/peabody.jhu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4974\/revisions\/19568"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peabody.jhu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peabody.jhu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}