Marina Kifferstein (she/they) is a violinist and generative artist based in NYC. Equally comfortable in major international halls and intimate DIY venues, she enjoys a diverse career with a focus on contemporary chamber music. Marina is a founding member of TAK ensemble and The Rhythm Method string quartet, a principal member of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra, and is a regular guest with the International Contemporary Ensemble, Wet Ink, and Talea.
A strong supporter of new music, Marina has performed and commissioned an extensive repertoire of music by living composers; as a soloist and chamber musician, they have premiered hundreds of new works. Her own compositions have been performed across the U.S. and Europe. Marina has been a featured performer at international music festivals including the Lincoln Center Festival, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Festival Musiques Démesurées, Musiikin Aika, and the Lucerne Festival. She has held residencies with TAK and the Rhythm Method at dozens of universities across the U.S. and Europe, including the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, New York University, McGill, and Zürich Hochschule der Künst.
Marina is currently a DMA candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she is researching contemporary performance practice of extended just intonation tuning for strings. She holds an MM in Contemporary Performance from the Manhattan School of Music, a BM in Violin from Oberlin Conservatory, and a BA in English from Oberlin College. She is on violin faculty at the United Nations International School, the Composers Conference, and the Lucerne Festival Academy.
