Described as “brilliant” and “lyrical” by the Washington Post, violinist Lina Bahn is a highly acclaimed champion of new music and is established as a versatile performer of many styles.
In 1998, Dr. Bahn joined the award-winning Corigliano Quartet as part-time lecturers on the faculty of Indiana University. The group went on to serve residencies at the Juilliard School and Dickinson College. Their travels have brought them to festivals around the world, where they have performed and taught hundreds of master classes. Their concerts have been in venues including: The Library of Congress, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Recital Hall, Bargemusic, Ravinia, Corcoran Gallery, Phillips Collection, Carnegie Hall, Library of Congress, and Lincoln Center. The Corigliano Quartet has been 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.
Dr. Bahn is the Executive Director and violinist with the VERGE Ensemble, the resident ensemble of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The VERGE ensemble maintains an active series in D.C., and has traveled around the country to new music festivals such as June in Buffalo and to France, where they have engaged in master classes and outreach concerts.
Ms. Bahn has appeared as soloist with the Chicago Chamber Orchestra, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, La Orquesta Sinfonica de la Serena (Chile), and the Malaysian National Symphony Orchestra. She has performed recitals and concerts throughout the world 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. 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.
Finishing her Doctorate of Music degree from the Indiana University, Ms. Bahn completed her dissertation entitled, Virtuosity in Luciano Berio’s Sequenza VIII. At Indiana, she 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 Naoko Tanaka at the Juilliard School, where she graduated as a Bachelor of Music. Ms. Bahn’s early training in Chicago was under the guidance of Roland and Almita Vamos at the North Shore Music Center.
Ms. Bahn was newly appointed to the faculty at the University of Colorado in 2008.
