Dijana Ihas
Sarajevo
Dijana Ihas played in the Sarajevo Philharmonic, the opera and the Sarajevo String Quartet, the one that gave 206 concerts in hospitals, mosques, churches and on the front line during three and a half years of siege.
- 206 concerts in besieged Sarajevo
- Oregon's first String Project
- Outstanding String Project in the US, 2018
- Oregon Music Educator of the Year, 2021
- ASTA research award, 2025
“Music as a symbol of human spirit and creativity is stronger than these bombs that are coming.”
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After the Dayton Accords she left as a refugee for California, finished degrees at Irvine and Arizona and did doctoral work at the University of Oregon. Her high-school orchestra in Salem won state and national competitions. In 2012 she founded Oregon's first String Project at Pacific University, string classes for children from second to twelfth grade, named the country's outstanding project in 2018.
Professor and chair of music, conductor of the Pacific Philharmonic; Oregon Music Educator of the Year in 2021, and the American String Teachers Association's research award in 2025.
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