CHO-LIANG LIN Violinist

CHO-LIANG LINViolinistViolinist Cho-Liang Lin, is lauded the world over for the eloquence of his playing and for the superbmusicianship that marks his performances. In a concert career spanning the globe for thirty years, he is equally at homewith orchestra, in recital, playing chamber music, as in a teaching studio.Mr. Lin’s recent and upcoming concerts reflect his wide-ranging musical activities. Performing on severalcontinents, he appears as soloist with orchestras such as Dallas Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Houston Symphony,Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and overseas with the Bergen Philharmonic, Stockholm Philharmonic, New ZealandSymphony, English Chamber Orchestra and Singapore Symphony. An avid chamber musician, the 2009/10 seasonincludes chamber concerts at the Beijing Music Festival, as well as his perennial appearances performing at theChamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. As an advocate for music or our time Mr. Lin has enjoyed collaborationsand premieres with composers such as Joel Hoffman, John Harbison, Christopher Rouse,, Esa-Pekka Salonen, PaulSchoenfield, Bright Sheng, and Joan Tower. Most recently, Mr. Lin presented the European and American premieresof Tangos Concertantes, a concerto by Hollywood icon, Lalo Schifrin. In the 2009/10 season, he will give the worldpremiere of Tan Dun's Violin Concerto as a part of Carnegie Hall's China Festival.As Music Director of La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest since 2001, Mr. Lin has helped develop a festivalthat once focused primarily on chamber music into a multidiscipline festival featuring dance, jazz and a burgeoningnew music program commissioning composers as diverse as Chick Corea, Stewart Copeland, Leon Kirchner,Christopher Rouse, Wayne Shorter, Kaija Saariaho and Gunther Schuller.Cho-Liang Lin’s extensive discography includes recordings for Sony Classical, Decca, Ondine, Naxos andBIS. His albums have won such awards as Gramophone’s Record of the Year, as well as two Grammy Awardnominations. His recordings reflect the breadth of his distinctive career including the standard violin concerti fromMozart to Stravinsky, chamber music from Brahms to Ravel and contemporary music from Chen Yi to Christopher

Cho-Liang LinPage 2Rouse. His most recent releases include Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with Sejong and Anthony Newman, violin works ofBright Sheng and Gordon Chin on Naxos, and the First Violin Concerto by George Tsontakis on Koch.Born in Taiwan in 1960, Cho-Liang Lin began his violin lessons when he was 5 years old with Sylvia Lee. Atthe age of 12, he went to Sydney to continue his musical studies with Robert Pikler. Inspired by an encounter withItzhak Perlman while in Sydney, he traveled to New York in 1975 to audition for Perlman’s teacher, the late DorothyDeLay, at the Juilliard School. He was to study with Miss DeLay for six years. At the age of nineteen Mr. Lin made hisNew York debut at the Mostly Mozart Festival and soon thereafter with the New York Philharmonic and his concertcareer was launched. In 2000 Musical America named Mr. Lin its Instrumentalist of the Year. He was invited to jointhe faculty of the Juilliard School in 1991. More recently he was appointed professor of violin at Rice University’sShepherd School of Music. He plays the 1715 "Titian" Stradivarius.Please note that all bios must contain reference to Mr. Lin’s title asMusic Director of La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest.OFFICIAL BIO FOR THE 2009-2010 SEASON. LAST UPDATED OCTOBER 2009.PLEASE DESTROY ALL PREVIOUSLY DATED MATERIALS.For additional materials contact publicity@opus3artists.com