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Lin Cho-liang (林昭亮, usually written Cho-liang Lin in English), born in 1960 in Hsinchu, Taiwan, is a Taiwanese American violinist who is renowned for his appearances as a soloist with major orchestras. "Musical America" named him its "Instrumentalist of the Year" in 2000. He founded the Taipei International Music Festival in 1997, the largest classical music festival in the history of his native country, performing to an indoor audience of over 53,000.
Career
Lin was born in Hsinchu, a quiet college town 120 km (60 miles) south of Taipei, a research center where his father worked as a nuclear physicist. He began playing violin at the age of five. Recognizing that he needed to pursue his violin studies abroad, he made his way to Australia by himself when he was only 12 years old; he spent three years in Sydney. His commanding technique and precocious abilities then led him to Juilliard School, where he studied with the eminent Dorothy DeLay, teacher to such greats as Itzhak Perlman, Gil Shaham, Midori Goto, and Sarah Chang. He made his public debut in New York at the age of 19, playing the Mozart Third Concerto at Avery Fisher Hall.
Cho-Liang Lin is a violinist whose career has spanned the globe for 27 years. He was born in Taiwan in 1960 and began playing the violin at the age of five. He went on to study in Sydney and New York City where he was a student of Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School. Since his début at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival at the age of nineteen, he has appeared with virtually every major orchestra in the world, including the Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra and New York Philharmonic. He has over twenty recordings to his credit, ranging from the concertos of Mozart, Mendelssohn, Sibelius, and Prokofiev, to Christopher Rouse and Tan Dun, as well as the chamber music of Schubert, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Ravel. His recording partners include Yefim Bronfman, Yo-Yo Ma, Wynton Marsalis, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Leonard Slatkin, Michael Tilson and played in the movie 4
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Artist Detail
Taiwanese-American violinist Cho-Liang Lin is lauded the world over for the eloquence of his playing and for the superb musicianship that marks his performances. Renowned for appearances as a soloist with major orchestras, he is also frequently heard in recital and in chamber music. Musical America named Mr. Lin its Instrumentalist of the Year in 2000.
During the current season, Mr. Lin appears as soloist with the BBC Symphony, Copenhagen Philharmonic, China Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Buffalo Philharmonic, Orchestre symphonique de Montr�al, Orchestra of St. Luke's, and Fort Worth Symphony. His engagements include a 15-city tour across the United States playing with the Moscow Philharmonic conducted by Yuri Simonov. With The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, he has surveyed the Schubert trios with Andre-Michel Schub and Gary Hoffman as well having given the world premiere of Lalo Schifren's Letters from Argentina.
Last summer, Cho-Liang Lin served his fourth year as artistic director of La Jolla SummerFest in San Diego. He also performed at the BBC Proms, Hollywood Bowl, Aspen Music Festival, and Minnesota Orchestra's Sommerfest. He founded the Taipei International Music Festival in 1997, the largest classical music festival in the history of his native country, performing to an outdoor audience numbering over 30,000. He led a second festival in May 2000 and a third in March 2003.
As artistic director of La Jolla SummerFest, the Los Angeles Times stated that Mr. Lin "has put together another bracing and provocative series." An advocate of contemporary composers, Mr. Lin has invited prominent composers to this festival while actively seeking and promoting commissions from these composers. As a solo artist, he has premiered works by Tan Dun, Joel Hoffman, Christopher Rouse, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Elie Siegmeister, Bright Sheng, George Tsontakis, George Walker, and Chen Yi. In San Diego and Taipei, he has presented the world premieres of two concertos by the Taiwanese composer Gordon Chin.
Cho-Liang Lin has recorded for SONY Classical, Decca, Ondine and BIS. Some of his albums have won such awards as Gramophone's Record of the Year, as well as two Grammy Award nominations. On SONY Classical, his discography includes standard violin repertoire such as concerti ranging from Mozart to Stravinsky as well as chamber music of Brahms, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, and Ravel. For Decca, he recorded the Concerto for Violin and Guitar by Aaron Jay Kernis with Sharon Isbin, conductor Hugh Wolff and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. For BIS, he recorded Chen Yi's concerto Folk Dance Suite. His recording of the concerto by Christopher Rouse on Ondine was recently named one of the best classical releases of 2004 by The New York Times.
Born in Taiwan in 1960, Cho-Liang Lin began his violin lessons when he was 5 years old. At the age of 12, he went to Sydney to continue his musical studies. His early teachers included Sylvia Lee and Robert Pikler. Inspired by an encounter with Itzhak Perlman while in Sydney, he arrived in New York in 1975 to audition for Mr. Perlman's teacher, the late Dorothy DeLay, at The Juilliard School. Within two years of his enrollment, Mr. Lin won the first Queen Sofia Violin Competition in Madrid and his concert career was soon launched. He has been a member of the Juilliard faculty since 1991 and resides in New York with his wife and daughter. His violin is the 1734 Guarneri del Ges� "The Duke of Camposelice."
He has been an Artist of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 1995.
* Instrumentalist of the Year 2000: Cho-Liang Lin by Shirley Fleming
* 2006 A-HA Cultural Festival by Council of Hakka Affairs
* Taiwan Connection--- Music and Musicians from Taiwan by Taipei Cultural Center
* In a Galaxy Full of Radiant Violinists Cho-Liang Lin Shines Bright by Benjamin Ivry
* Q & A with Cho-Liang Lin by Lionel Choi
