Lina Bahn, Violin

A violinist with a keen interest in collaborative and innovative repertoire, Lina Bahn has been called “brilliant” and “lyrical” by the Washington Post. Her Mean Fiddle Summer (Naxos) was hailed, “From start to finish, the violinist demonstrates her adroit technical facility, kaleidoscope of colors, and consummate musical taste.” She is a dedicated collaborator, with recent performance at the Oregon Bach Festival with Matt Haimovitz, Kathleen Tagg, and David Krakauer. She was a guest performer with the Takacs Quartet at Strathmore Hall, Concertgabouw Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Mariinsky Theater, and Queen Elizabeth Hall. From 1998-2010, Lina was a member of the award-winning Corigliano Quartet, lauded by Strad, and which earned the ASCAP/CMA Award for Adventurous Programming. Their Naxos recording was selected by The New Yorker as one of the year’s “Best 10 Recordings”, and can be heard on the Albany, CRI, Naxos, and Bayer Labels. For fourteen years, Bahn served as Executive Director and violinist with the VERGE Ensemble of the Contemporary Music Forum in residency at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. She was on faculty at University of Colorado-Boulder from 2008-2015, and is currently on faculty and serves as Chair of the Strings department at Thornton School of Music, USC.

Upcoming Concerts: Mendelssohn Octet June 5, 2024