Lina Bahn coaches PCM violin students.

About Lina Bahn

Lina Bahn is a violinist with a keen interest in collaborative and innovative repertoire. Her most recent publication of Axolotl for violin and electronics on Neuma Records was released with high acclaim, “proves not only her technical brilliance, but also her flair for innovative musical narratives”. Her first solo album, Mean Fiddle Summer on the Naxos Label was hailed by ClevelandClassical.com, “From start to finish, the violinist demonstrates her adroit technical facility, kaleidoscope of colors, and consummate musical taste.” A long committed performer to new works, she has commissioned and performed hundreds of new pieces, and was the violinist and Executive Director for 14 years of the Contemporary Music Forum, resident ensemble at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. She was a member of the award-winning Corigliano Quartet from 1998-2010, with performances at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Library of Congress, Ravinia, and which earned the ASCAP/CMA Award for Adventurous Programming. In 2007, their Naxos Records recording was selected by The New Yorker magazine as one of the year’s “Best 10 Recordings”. She is a founding member of MoVE (Modern Violin Ensemble), a group of four violinists dedicated to social change and commissioning new works for this innovative configuration of instruments. Her teachers include Dorothy DeLay (BM) Juilliard School , Paul Kantor (MM) University of Michigan, Paul Biss and Miriam Fried (DM) Indiana University, and her early training was in Chicago with Almita and Roland Vamos. From 2008-2015, she was on the faculty at the University of Colorado-Boulder, and she currently is the Chair of the Strings Department, and teaches at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she was twice awarded the Thornton Teaching Award, along with the Dean’s Teaching Award.