The versatile violinist/violist Ida Kavafian served as the Artistic Director of the acclaimed ‹Music from Angel Fire› festival for 35 years. She is the co-founder of Tashi, OPUS ONE, Trio Valtorna, and Bravo! Vail, the latter of which she directed for ten years. A frequent artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center for over 50 years, Kavafian is also a former violinist of the Beaux Arts Trio and a faculty member at The Curtis Institute of Music, where she holds the Nina von Maltzahn Violin Chair.

Kavafian has premiered concertos by Toru Takemitsu and Michael Daugherty, and has toured and recorded with jazz legends Chick Corea, Wynton Marsalis, and fiddler/composer Mark O’Connor. She has also appeared as a violist with renowned ensembles including the Guarneri, Orion, Shanghai, and American String Quartets. Additionally, she was featured in a solo performance on CBS Sunday Morning. A graduate of Juilliard, where she studied under Oscar Shumsky, she made her New York debut through Young Concert Artists alongside pianist Peter Serkin. Together with her husband, violist Steven Tenenbom, she breeds, trains, and shows prize-winning Vizsla dogs.