Erin Keefe, violin
Winner of the 2006 Avery Fisher Career Grant, American violinist Erin Keefe is quickly establishing a reputation and earning praise as a compelling artist who combines exhilarating temperament and fierce integrity. A top prize winner of several International Competitions, she recently took the Grand Prizes in the 2006 Schadt Competition and the 2004 Corpus Christi International String Competition, and was the Silver Medalist in the Carl Nielsen and Gyeongnam (Korea) International Violin Competitions, resulting in performances and immediate re-engagements in the US, Europe, and Asia.
In past seasons Ms. Keefe has appeared with such renowned artists as Richard Goode, David Soyer, Peter Wiley, Gilbert Kalish, and William Preucil, among others, and performed on a program with Michael Tilson Thomas premiering his own chamber music at Carnegie's Zankel Hall. She also recorded Schoenberg's Second String Quartet with Ida Kavafian, Paul Neubauer, Fred Sherry, and Jennifer Welch-Babidge for Robert Craft and the Naxos Label, which was released in 2005. Her festival appearances have included Ravinia, Marlboro Music Festival, Music from Angel Fire, and the Seattle, OK Mozart, and Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festivals.
Highlights of Ms. Keefe's 2005-06 season included performances with some of the leading artists of our day, including the Emerson String Quartet, Roberto and Andres Diaz, and David Finckel and Wu Han. Ms. Keefe joins the prestigious CMS Two program of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center for the 2006-08 seasons and will appear in numerous performances at Lincoln Center as well as on tour throughout the US.
Ms. Keefe earned a Master of Music Degree from The Juilliard School and a Bachelor of Music Degree from The Curtis Institute. Her past teachers include Ronald Copes, Ida Kavafian, Arnold Steinhardt, Philip Setzer, Philipp Naegele, Brian Lewis, Mitchell Stern, and Teri Einfeldt.
Erin Keefe
Upcoming Appearances at Chamber Music Society:
Folk Traditions I: 10/19/2010
Manifest Legacy: Beethoven/Brahms III: 2/13/2011
Russian Voices: 4/10/2011
Russian Voices: 4/12/2011
Search for Erin Keefe CDs available for purchase at the Chamber Music Society