Education
Bohren has attended numerous masterclasses under tutors including Shmuel Ashkenasi, Thomas Brandis, Giuliano Carmignola, Ana Chumachenco and Dmitry Sitkovetsky.
Bohren has attended numerous masterclasses under tutors including Shmuel Ashkenasi, Thomas Brandis, Giuliano Carmignola, Ana Chumachenco and Dmitry Sitkovetsky.
Sebastian Bohren pursued lessons under Jens Lohmann, followed by studies with Robert Zimansky and Zakhar Bron at the Zurich University of the Arts, with Igor Karsko at the Musikhochschule Luzern and with Ingolf Turban at the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts. As a soloist, Bohren has performed with orchestras in both his native Switzerland and abroad, such as the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra under James Gaffigan, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra under Muhai Tang, the Zurich Camerata under Patrick Lange and Igor Karsko, the Zurich Stretta Consort, the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, the Orchestra of the Saint St. Petersburg Court Chapel and the Munich Junge Philharmonie, and in broadcasts on Swiss radio and television channels. Bohren has performed in countries across Europe, Asia and South-America, including numerous world premieres.
In 2015 Bohren will be performing as Festival Artist at the Boswil Summer.
He plays a King George (1710) Stradivarius belonging to the Habisreutinger Foundation, and a violin by Michael Rhonheimer.
Sebastian Bohren has won numerous competitions and prizes, and is the holder of a LYRA Foundation scholarship. In 2007 Bohren was awarded the scholarship of the Zurich-based Marguerite Meister Foundation. In July 2011 he won the Lucerne-based Curt Dienemann Music Award and a scholarship from the Carl Hirschmann Foundation.
He has played in festivals worldwide as a member of ensembles such as the London Steve Reich Ensemble and the Chamber Aartists. Sebastian Bohren has been a member of the Stradivari Quartet since 2013.
