Kievman, Practicing The Viola Mentally & Physically

Louis Kievman was a multi-talented performer, writer, lecturer, and teacher. He enrolled in the Institute of Musical Art at 16 and studied under Franz Kneisel and Sascha Jacobsen. Kievman played with the Musical Arts Quartet and Stuyvesant String Quartet and was a founding member of the NBC Symphony under Arturo Toscanini. He taught master classes and was a faculty member at institutions such as the California Institute of the Arts and the University of California at Long Beach.