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Professor in the Practice of Violin since 2006, Ani Kavafian has enjoyed a career as soloist with major orchestras, chamber musician, and recitalist. She is also in great demand as a teacher, having taught at Mannes and Manhattan schools of music, Queens College, McGill, and Stony Brook universities.
Ms. Kavafian has appeared as soloist with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia, and Cleveland Orchestras as well as the Los Angeles and St. Paul Chamber Orchestras. Along with her sister, Ida, she has appeared around the country in recital as well as soloists with orchestras.
As an artist of the Chamber Music Society since 1979, Ani Kavafian continues to tour the United States, Canada, and the Far East. Ms. Kavafian is also a member of Trio da Salo with violist Barbara Westphal and cellist Gustav Rivinius and is a founding member of The Triton Horn Trio with William Purvis and Mihae Lee. Ms. Kavafian performs frequently with clarinetist David Shifrin and pianist Andre-Michel Schub. Along with cellist Carter Brey, she is the artistic director of the New Jersey chamber music series “Mostly Music.”
A 1979 recipient of the Avery Fisher Prize, she has appeared at the White House on three separate occasions and has been featured on many network and PBS television music specials. Recently, Ms. Kavafian and Kenneth Cooper released a live recording of Bach’s Six Sonatas on the Kleos Classics label. In 2007, a recording of Mozart Piano and Violin Sonatas with pianist Jorge Federico Osorio was released by Artek.
In the summer of 2008 she traveled to nine music festivals from Oregon to Italy. Ms. Kavafian serves as a guest concertmaster of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra will perform as soloist with that orchestra in 2009. The Kavafian sisters will celebrate the 25th Anniversary of their first recital in Carnegie Hall in November 2008 with a performance at the Ethical Culture Society presented by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.