Klara Bahcall, Violin & Viola
Klara
Fenyƶ Bahcall was born in Budapest, Hungary. She graduated from the
Bela Bartok Conservatory of Music with a degree in Violin
Performance and received her Performance Artist and Pedagogy Degree from
the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, Hungary, where she studied
with Semyon Snitkovsky, student and later successor of David Oistrach
as the Head of the Moscow Conservatory. Ms. Bahcall won a
two-year full scholarship for postgraduate studies to the Banff Arts
Centre, Canada, where she studied with numerous world-known artists and
teachers. She won first place at the Hungarian National Violin
Competition and was also the winner of the Budapest Chamber Music
Competition. Until coming to the United States, she was the
Concertmaster of the Hungarian National Opera and was soloist of the
Hungarian Philharmonia Artist Management, as well as the soloist of the
Hungarian Radio.
Klara Fenyƶ Bahcall is actively concertizing and has given recitals and solo performances throughout Hungary, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, and the United States. She appeared numerous times on the Chazen Concert Series of the Wisconsin Public Radio in Madison, where she will be performing again in November of 2012. Ms. Bahcall has given Chamber Music recitals on the prestigious "Monday Evening Concert Series" of WFMT, Chicago, Chicago's classical music radio station, the Green Lake Festival, and has been a repeat soloist with the Oshkosh Symphony Orchestra. In September of 2012 she is returning for the fourth time as one of the featured soloists of the International Jewish Festival in Hungary.
Prof. Bahcall is the director of the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh String Festival and since 2000 has served as the Music Director of "Chamber Music Week at the Clearing," an intensive chamber music program for adults in Door County, Wisconsin.


