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 a soloist and chamber musician throughout Europe, North and South America, the Middle East, and Asia. Her performances have taken her to such venues as Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and Salle Cortot in Paris, Beethoven Hall in Bonn, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Hall, the Tel Aviv Opera, the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, Shanghai Oriental Art Center, and Lincoln Center in New York. 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 of the Manhattan School of Music and is a member of its Faculty Council. She previously held the position of Professor of Violin at the University of North Texas. Her students have earned prizes at national and international competitions, and she is in demand worldwide as a guest artist, master teacher, and festival faculty member. Recent engagements include the Heifetz International Music Institute, MusicFest Perugia, Artists of Korea in Seoul, MusicAlp in France, Kaufman MusicFest in New York, Chamber Music International in Dallas, the Texas Chamber Music Institute, and the Paris International Music Academy.
A laureate of the Fondation Bleustein-Blanchet, Kiffer studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris before completing postgraduate studies at the Manhattan School of Music and earning a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Stony Brook University. Her teachers include Patinka Kopec, Pinchas Zukerman, Hagai Shaham, Philip 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, 2023).