{"id":6748,"date":"2016-03-10T18:29:51","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T17:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/gothenburg-symphony-orchestra\/artist-in-residence\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T11:43:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T09:43:43","slug":"artist-in-residence","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/gothenburg-symphony-orchestra\/the-orchestra\/artist-in-residence\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist in Residence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The violinist Ava Bahari was born in Gothenburg 1996. She started playing the violin when she was three years old and did her first solo concert eight-year-old in Gothenburg Concert Hall. As a thirteen-year-old, she gained attention for her role as a musical prodigy in the television series &#8220;Molanders&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201dI am convinced that there are as many definitions of beauty as there are people on earth. As a musician, I constantly strive for beauty. What qualities does something beautiful have?&#8221; Ava Bahari<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ava Bahari has studied at the Oslo Academy of Music&#8217;s program for young artists under the direction of Terje Moe Hansen and then with the violinist Per Enoksson 2011-2015, who was first concertmaster in the Gothenburg Symphony at the time. She made her soloist debut together with us in the Gothenburg Symphony in Sch\u00f6nberg&#8217;s violin concerto in January 2023.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/gso-kuusisto-bahari-jan2023-058a1072-foto-francis-lofvenholm-1920x1254-1.jpg\" alt=\"Violinisten Ava Bahari spelar p\u00e5 sitt instrument under konsert med G\u00f6teborgs Symfoniker.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1254\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 2015, Ava Bahari began bachelor and master studies at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin under the direction of Kolja Blacher and she obtained her diploma in May 2024. In 2021 she also obtained a degree at the Accademia Stauffer in Cremona, Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Ava Bahari has received many awards over the years, such as 3rd prize at the Premio Paganini competition in Genova, 4th prize at the Concours International Tibor Varga in Sion 2021, 1st prize at the Aurora Music Competition in Stockholm 2019. She has also received music and cultural scholarships from Sten A Olsson&#8217;s Foundation for Research and Culture, Royal The Society of Science and Knowledge in Gothenburg and the Willinska Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/avabahari-dsc00168-sylvainbarrecs-1920x1254-2.jpg\" alt=\"Violinisten Ava Bahar ler i vit kostym med instrumentet i sin hand.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1254\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Throughout her career, Bahari has been taught by prominent violinists and educators such as Leonidas Kavakos, Mihaela Martin, Pierre Amoyal, Midori Goto and Boris Kuschnir. She has worked with conductors such as Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Pekka Kuusisto and Ryan Bancroft and performed with orchestras such as us in the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic, Teatro Carlo Felice Genova, the Baden-Baden Philharmonic, and the Odense Symphony Orchestra.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2024-2025 season, she will also play with The Philharmonia Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Some of her extra exciting performances are a Paganini performance at the Seoul Arts Center, a recital on the &#8220;Stauffer&#8221; Guarneri del Ges\u00f9 1734 at the museo del Violino Cremona and a recital at the Konzerthaus Berlin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The violinist Ava Bahari was born in Gothenburg 1996. She started playing the violin when she was three years old and did her first solo concert eight-year-old in Gothenburg Concert Hall. 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