Pasha Sabouri
- Chamber Music
- Chair, Strings
- Violin
The two most important things you can ever do as a musician are to Listen and React.
Q&A
What ensembles have you performed with?
ROCO, Minnesota Orchestra
What is your hometown?
Henderson, NV
What are you passionate about outside of music?
Tennis, Hiking, My Standard Poodle named Bailey.
What was the defining moment when you decided to pursue music as a career?
The minute I heard Itzhak Perlman play.
If you weren't a musician or teacher, what do you think you would be doing now?
I would have loved to have been a Professional Tennis player!
If you could play only three composers for the rest of your life, who would they be?
There are too many to just pick 3!
What is your unrealized project?
To be able to give access to music education regardless of any barriers or restraints life gives someone.
Biography
Pasha Sabouri is one of the most sought-after and respected American violin pedagogues of the new generation. He has performed in recitals and concerts in Holland, Sweden, Austria, Germany, UK, throughout the United States and Canada. A passionate educator and a published author whose acclaimed book "Upbeat" guides middle and high school students and their families on the road to professional musical education and career. His students are competing and featured in such competitions and media outlets as Menuhin Competition, Sphinx Competition, Dallas Symphony’s Lynn Harrell Competition, ENKOR Competition, and NPR's From The Top, winning the coveted "Jack Kent Cooke" Award.
Pasha Sabouri is the founder and Artistic Director of the Texas Strings Festival, and its affiliate Master Series - a year-round educational initiative which provides the students with extraordinary opportunity to be guided and inspired by leading musicians of the day. Throughout the years the students of TSF have had the privilege to work with such luminaries as Miriam Fried, Vadim Gluzman, Paul Kantor, Ida Kavafian, Jan Mark Sloman, Jinjoo Cho, Nadja Salerno Sonnenberg, Robin Wilson, Grigory Kalinovsky. He is also the founder and leader of Teachers’ Lounge – an online teachers collective designed to support and empower his colleagues with innovative ways of teaching and studio development.
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, his primary focus is his highly successful private studio. Pasha Sabouri is on the faculty of the University of California Santa Barbara and Head of Strings at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Pre-College. He has also had the privilege to serve as Adjunct Professor at Concordia College as well as Artistic Director at the Concordia College Music Academy in Austin, Texas. Prior to this position, he was appointed Lecturer Violin Professor at Centenary College in Shreveport, Louisiana, and has also been faculty at Encore Chamber Music Institute, Omaha Conservatory of Music Institute, the Brian Lewis Young Artist Program, and has adjudicated at Carnegie Hall NYO/2 program, Jackie McGehee and UT Concerto Competitions.
Pasha Sabouri has appeared as a soloist at the opening of the Edinburgh Festival, performed with the Texas Chamber Orchestra, Las Vegas Philharmonic, Henderson Symphony, and the Ottawa Sinfonette. He was awarded the first prize at the National Federation of Music Clubs Young Artist Competition, and was named National Finalist for Music Teachers National Association, The Texas Young Artist, and the Coeur D’Alene Competitions.