Lina Bahn
lina.bahn@colorado.edu
www.linabahn.com
Imig Music Building N153
303-492-0200
Mailing Address: 301 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0301
Assistant Professor of Violin
Lina Bahn is a violinist who has a keen interest in collaborative and innovative repertoire. She has been called “brilliant” and “lyrical” by the Washington Post, and is a highly acclaimed performer of new music and is established as a versatile player of many styles.
From 1998-2010, Lina Bahn was a member of the award-winning Corigliano Quartet, which held position as part-time lecturers on the faculty of Indiana University, and residencies at the Juilliard School and Dickinson College. Their travels brought them to festivals and performances in Mexico, Italy, and throughout the United States, where they played in venues, including: The Library of Congress, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Recital Hall, Bargemusic, Ravinia, Corcoran Gallery, Phillips Collection, and Carnegie Hall. The Corigliano Quartet was lauded by the Strad Magazine for their “abundant commitment and mastery”, and praised as “musicians who seem to say ‘listen to this!’” by the New York Times. In 2003, the Corigliano Quartet was awarded the CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming for numerous commissions and premieres of new American works. They have been broadcast on NPR’s Performance Today, All Things Considered, and Backstage Pass, Chicago’s WFMT’s Live From Studio One, and can be heard on the Albany, CRI, Naxos, and Bayer Labels. Their recent CD release of the Corigliano/Friedman quartets was noted as “Top 10 best of 2007” in the New Yorker magazine.
In Washington, D.C., Dr. Bahn is the Executive Director and violinist with the VERGE Ensemble, the resident ensemble of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. The VERGE Ensemble has performed in Paris, New York, Cleveland, and was the resident ensemble for the June in Buffalo Festival in 2009. She is also a member of the newly formed National Gallery New Music Ensemble, which gave its inaugural performance in the East Wing in 2010, performing works of Xenakis, Antosca, and a premiere by Roger Reynolds.
As a soloist, she has appeared with the Chicago Chamber Orchestra, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, La Orquesta Sinfonica de la Serena (Chile), and the Malaysian National Symphony Orchestra. Her chamber music performances have also brought her throughout the world. She has performed recitals and concerts in festivals such as the Costa Rican International Chamber Festival, the Sierra Summer Festival, the Grand Canyon Music Festival, the Garth Newel Music Series, and the Festival de Música de Cámara de San Miguel de Allende. In the spring of 2010, she performed with the Takacs Quartet during the recuperative period from shoulder surgery of Karoly Shranz, performing at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Concertgabouw, Carnegie Hall, and the Strathmore, and the Mariinsky Theater, among many others. From 1992-1994 she toured extensively throughout Chile with the Bahn-Mahave-Browne piano trio as a recipient of national grants to teach and perform. In 2005, their piano trio was selected to perform for the president of Chile and the King of Indonesia, in Kuala Lumpuur.
Lina Bahn was appointed to the faculty at the University of Colorado in Boulder in 2008. She has taught masterclasses throughout the world including those at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory in Singapore, the Sydney Conservatory, Hong Kong University, Renmin University (Beijing), the Curtis Institute of Music, the University of Wisconsin, Utah University, and the University of California/Berkeley, among others. With the Takacs String Quartet, she has given masterclasses at the Amsterdam Conservatory at Concertgabouw, the Music Academy of the West, the University of Southern California, and the Guildhall School of Music in London. She has been on the faculty of the Sierra Summer Academy of Music since 2001, and currently maintains a vibrant and exciting studio of undergraduates and graduate students in Boulder, CO. Her students have performed, as a studio, in the all-violin composition, Gran Turismo, by Andrew Norman, and commissioned the all-violin composition, Monster Party, by Hunter Ewen.
Finishing her Doctorate of Music degree from the Indiana University, Dr. Bahn completed her dissertation entitled, Virtuosity in Luciano Berio’s Sequenza VIII. At Indiana, she was an Associate Instructor and studied with Miriam Fried and Paul Biss. She completed her Master of Music degree at University of Michigan as a recipient of the Jane Bryant Fellowship Award under the tutelage of Paul Kantor. She studied with Dorothy Delay and Paul Kantor/Naoko Tanaka at the Juilliard School, where she graduated as a Bachelor of Music. Dr. Bahn’s early training in Chicago started with Lillian Schaber and she finished her high school years under the guidance of Roland and Almita Vamos.