Armenian-American violist Cara Pogossian is an accomplished chamber musician, with  appearances at summer festivals including Marlboro, Yellow Barn, Ravinia’s Steans Music  Institute, Tippet Rise, and the Taos School of Music. Recent seasons have included  performances with the Boston Chamber Music Society, Jupiter Symphony Chamber  Players, Caramoor’s Evnin Rising Stars, Musicians from Marlboro, ensemble132, and the  Ulysses Quartet. She has collaborated with distinguished artists including Mitsuko Uchida,  Anthony Marwood, Donald Weilerstein, Ida Kavafian, Daniel Phillips, Marcy Rosen, Peter  Wiley, and Kim Kashkashian. 

Cara is principal violist of the Portland Symphony Orchestra and has appeared as a guest  musician with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orpheus  Chamber Orchestra, and St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. She is a recipient of the St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award and won the 2024 New England Conservatory  Concerto Competition, performing Bartók’s Viola Concerto with the NEC Philharmonia.  Additional honors include the Borromeo String Quartet Guest Artist Award, and her quartet  was selected as an Honors Ensemble at the New England Conservatory. She has toured  with the Curtis Institute of Music on multiple occasions and recently completed her  second Musicians from Marlboro tour. Cara regularly collaborates with her family, and has premiered and recorded works by composers including Timo Andres, Aida Shirazi, Donald  Crockett, Ian Krouse, and Artashes Kartalyan. 

Cara completed her graduate studies with Kim Kashkashian at the New England  Conservatory as the recipient of the Abraham Skernick Memorial Presidential Scholarship.  She previously studied with Hsin-Yun Huang and Misha Amory at the Curtis Institute of  Music.