Franco-American violinist Chloé Kiffer has been praised by The New York Times for her “pure and beautiful tone” and by The Greenwich Sentinel as “a star in every sense: performance, exquisite technique, and beauty.”

 

Kiffer has appeared as soloist and chamber musician throughout Europe, North and South America, the Middle East, and Asia. She has performed in Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and Salle Cortot in Paris, Beethoven Hall in Bonn, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Hall, the Tel Aviv Opera, Beijing National Center, Shanghai Oriental Hall, and Lincoln Center, among other venues. In 2015, she made her Carnegie Hall debut in Stern Auditorium, performing Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto.

 

Kiffer serves on the violin and chamber music faculty at the Manhattan School of Music and was previously professor of violin at the University of North Texas. Her students have won prizes at national and international competitions, and she is sought after as a guest teacher and festival faculty member worldwide. Recent engagements include the Heifetz International Music Institute, MusicFest Perugia in Italy, Artists of Korea in Seoul, MusicAlp in France, Kaufman MusicFest in New York, Chamber Music International in Dallas, Texas Chamber Music Institute, and the Paris International Music Academy.

 

A laureate of the Bleustein-Blanchet Foundation, Kiffer studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris before completing postgraduate degrees at the Manhattan School of Music followed by a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Stony Brook University.

Her teachers include Patinka Kopec, Pinchas Zukerman, Hagai Shaham, Phil Setzer, Joshua Epstein and Rodion Zamuruev.

 

In 2019, she released an album of Ravel’s violin sonatas with her husband, pianist Alexandre Moutouzkine, on the Steinway & Sons label. She performs on a violin made for her by luthier Samuel Zygmuntowicz (Brooklyn, NY, 2023).