Armenian-American violist Cara Pogossian is an avid chamber musician having performed at numerous summer festivals, including the Marlboro Festival, Yellow Barn, Ravinia Steans Music Institute, and the Taos School of Music. Recent seasons have included performances with the Boston Chamber Music Society, Tippet Rise, the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, Caramoor’s Evnin Rising Stars, and the Ulysses Quartet. She has had the privilege of collaborating and performing with many of the leading figures in classical music, such as Mitsuko Uchida, Anthony Marwood, Donald Weilerstein, Ida Kavafian, Daniel Phillips, Marcy Rosen, Peter Wiley, and Kim Kashkashian.
  Cara is the principal violist of the Portland Symphony Orchestra, and has appeared as a guest musician with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. She is a recipient of the St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award, and was also named the winner of the 2024 NEC Concerto Competition, culminating in a performance of Bartók’s Viola Concerto with the NEC Philharmonia. She has toured with the Curtis Institute on multiple occasions, and took part in her second Musicians from Marlboro tour earlier this year.
  Cara completed her graduate studies with Kim Kashkashian at the New England Conservatory of Music, as the recipient of the Abraham Skernick Memorial Presidential Scholarship. She had previously studied with Hsin-Yun Huang and Misha Amory at the Curtis Institute of Music.