CHO-LIANG LIN
Professor of Violin
CHO-LIANG LIN is a violinist whose career has spanned the globe for twenty-five years. Since his debut at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival with David Zinman 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 concerti of Mozart, Mendelssohn, Bruch and Sibelius to Porkofiev, Stravinsky as well as chamber music works of Schubert, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Ravel on Sony Classical. His recording partners include Yo-Yo Ma, Wynton Marsalis, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Leonard Slatkin, Michael Tilson Thomas and Isaac Stern. His recordings have won England’s Gramophone Record of the Year as well as Grammy nominations in the US. He is an advocate for new music by commissioning and presenting premiere performances and recordings of works by Chen Yi, Philip Glass, Aaron Jay Kernis, Christopher Rouse, Bright Sheng, Tan Dun, George Tsontakis and many more. Lin is a versatile musician, equally at home as a soloist with orchestra as well as in recital and in chamber music.
In 1997, he founded the Taipei International Music Festival. It became the largest classical music event in the history of Taiwan. He is also artistic director of La Jolla SummerFest in California. Born in Taiwan in 1960, Cho-Liang Lin began violin studies at the age of five. In 1972, he moved to Sydney, Australia, to further his musical training. His early teachers included Sylvia Lee and Robert Pikler. At the age of fifteen, he began six years of study at the Juilliard School in New York with Dorothy DeLay. While a college freshman, he won first prize at the Queen Sophia International Violin Competition in Spain and a concert career was launched. In 1981, Zubin Mehta invited him to perform the Mendelssohn concerto with the New York Philharmonic followed by an Asian tour with the same conductor and ensemble.
At the age of twenty-two, Lin recorded his first album with Neville Marriner for CBS Masterworks, now Sony Classical. In 1981, Lin was appointed to the faculty at the Juilliard School where his students have won top prices in international competitions and have launched their own solo careers. He joined Rice University as Professor of Violin in 2006.
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