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Johan Jonsson, Professor of Violin & Viola, is a native of Sweden and received his musical training in France, Sweden and the United States. He studied violin and chamber music at the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud in Aix-en-Provence and the Ecole Nationale de Musique in Bobigny, France; and he holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm, Sweden. While in Stockholm, he was a member of the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra where he had the opportunity to play under such eminent conductors as Antal Dorati, Gennadij Rozdjestvensky, Yoav Talmi, Kurt Sanderling and Sixten Ehrling.
Jonsson, who came to the United States as a Fulbright grantee, also holds a Master of Music degree in violin performance from Indiana University where he studied with Paul Biss and Tadeusz Wronski. He has performed as recitalist, chamber musician and soloist with orchestras throughout the United States and in Europe, and he teaches and performs regularly at several summer music festivals in the US. He frequently collaborates with colleagues from around the US as a chamber musician, and is also in demand as a guest conductor. He served as Concertmaster of the Bozeman Symphony Orchestra from 1984 to 2005, and is also a former member of the Billings Symphony Orchestra. He is the Leader and Artistic Director of the String Orchestra of the Rockies, Montana's only professional string orchestra, founded in 1984. He is the director of the Summer Youth Orchestra Workshop, a music camp for talented high school students which he founded in 1995.
He has lived in Bozeman since 1984 with his wife Christine and two daughters, Andrea and Sara
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