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Cho-Liang Lin Cho-Liang Lin is a violinist whose career has spanned the globe for twenty-seven years. Since his debut 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 concerti of Mozart, Mendelssohn, Bruch and Sibelius to Prokofiev, 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 U.S. He is an advocate for new music and has commissioned, premiered, and recorded works by Chen Yi, John Corigliano, Philip Glass, Aaron Jay Kernis, Christopher Rouse, Bright Sheng, Tan Dun, George Tsontakis and many more. His recent recordings include Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and Taiwanese composer Gordon Chin’s concerti on Naxos. At the age of fifteen, Lin began six years of study at the Juilliard School in New York with Dorothy DeLay, and won first prize at the Queen Sophia International Violin Competition in Spain during his freshman year of college. In 1981, Zubin Mehta invited him to perform the Mendelssohn concerto with the New York Philharmonic on the ensemble’s tour of Asia. At the age of twenty-two, Lin recorded his first ablum with Neville Marriner for CBS masterworks, now Sony Classical. 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, which became the largest classical music event in the history of Taiwan. He is also artistic director of La Jolla SummerFest. He has been on faculty at the Juilliard School since 1991 and was recently appointed as a professor at Rice University in Houston. As a conductor, he has appeared with the Seattle Symphony and Singapore Symphony.
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