New York State Council on the Arts, Aaron Copland Fund, Chamber Music America, CEC ArtsLink International Partnerships, Artist Trust, Seattle Arts Commission, North Carolina Council on the Arts, PONCHO, Jordan Foundation, Jack Straw Productions, Virgil Thomson Foundation, Allen Foundation, King County Arts Commission, Serage Foundation,

Meet The Composer, and others, and has held residencies in a number of artist communities.  She received her B.A. from Oberlin College, and her master's degree in Music from the City College of New York.

Currently, Kaminsky is Dean of the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College/SUNY, a position she assumed in August 2004.  She is concurrently the Curator of Music Programs at New York City's renowned Symphony Space, known nationally for its Selected Shorts program, Wall-to-Wall annual marathon concerts and Bloomsday celebration.

From 1999-2004 she served as Chair of the Department of Music at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, WA. She is also Co-founder and Artistic Director of Musicians Accord, a new music collective based in New York and dedicated to 20th and 21st century chamber music.  Musicians Accord has commissioned and/or premiered over 100 new works, has recorded for the Mode, CRI and North/South labels, and has been ensemble-in-residence at the City College of New York since 1984. Her music is published by Subito Music Corporation and recorded on the CRI and Mode labels.

Prior positions included Vice President for Programs at Meet the Composer, Director of the European Mozart Academy in Poland, an international post-graduate chamber music program; and in New York, Director of Music and Theater Programs at The New School, Artistic Director of The Town Hall, and Associate Director of Education at the 92nd Street Y.