| Beth Cohen has appeared as a soloist on violin and violia in numerous chamber groups in the U.S., Eastern and Western Europe, and South America; with numerous symphony, ballet, and opera orchestras. Beth has spent many years exploring the ways the violin and other bowed string instruments are played in Greece, Turkey, and Hungary. She has been the recipient of much travel and research grants, including the NEA/Artists International grant to study the classical music of Turkey. In addition to the violin and viola, she plays the yayli (bowed) tanbur (from Turkey), and the Macedonian, Thracian, and Cretan, and Pontic lyras (all from Greece). She has performed in the EurAsia Ensemble and Orchestra Keyif (Turkish), Sarkany (Hungarian), Sophia Bilides, Libana, Taximi and Ziyia (Greek). With Sonja Drakulich and Gari Hegedus in Kismet, she performs Arabic, Turkish and Greek music; Klezmer music as a frequent guest of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, sometimes with Itzhak Perlman. She teaches annually at the Balkan Music and Dance Camps on the East and West coasts, the World Music and Dance Camp on Cape Cod, and teaches workshops and ensembles on Middle Eastern, Eastern European, Greek and Turkish music in schools throughout the U.S. as well as teaching privately in her studio in Boston. She also performs solo concerts on various bowed string instruments from many countries (The Art of the Bow). |