Cho-Liang Lin 林昭亮 | |
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| Born | (1960-01-29)January 29, 1960 (age 65) Hsinchu, Taiwan |
| Instrument | Violin |
| Website | www |
Cho-Liang Lin (Lin Cho-liang,Chinese:林昭亮, born January 29, 1960) is a Taiwanese-Americanviolinist who is renowned for his appearances as asoloist with majororchestras.Musical America named him its "Instrumentalist of the Year" in 2000. He founded the Taipei International Music Festival in 1997, the largestclassical music festival in the history of Taiwan, performing to an indoor audience of over 53,000 and the Taipei Music Academy & Festival in 2019, a summer music festival.
Cho-Liang Lin is a violinist whose career has spanned the globe for more than four decades. Lin was born in 1960 to aHakka family inHsinchu, then a quiet college town 70 km (43 mi) south ofTaipei, aresearch center where his father worked as anuclear physicist. He began playingviolin at the age of five. Recognizing that he needed to pursue his violin studies abroad, he made his way toAustralia by himself when he was only 12 years old; he spent three years inSydney. His commanding technique and precocious abilities then led him toJuilliard School, where he studied with the eminentDorothy DeLay, teacher to several renowned soloists such asItzhak Perlman,Gil Shaham,Midori Goto, et al. He made his public debut inNew York City at the age of 19, playingMozart'sViolin Concerto No. 3 atAvery Fisher Hall.
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 theBoston Symphony Orchestra,Cleveland Orchestra,Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra,London Symphony Orchestra,Philadelphia Orchestra andNew York Philharmonic. He has over twenty recordings to his credit, ranging from the concertos ofMozart,Mendelssohn,Bruch,Sibelius, andProkofiev, toChristopher Rouse andTan Dun, as well as the chamber music ofSchubert,Brahms,Tchaikovsky andRavel. His recording partners includeYefim Bronfman,Yo-Yo Ma,Wynton Marsalis,Esa-Pekka Salonen,Leonard Slatkin,Michael Tilson Thomas,Isaac Stern andHelen Huang. His recordings have been critically acclaimed, winning several Grammy nominations and The Gramophone's Record of the Year award. He has been a member of the Juilliard School faculty since 1991, and, in 2006, he also started to teach atRice University. Lin served as the music director ofLa Jolla SummerFest in California from 2001 to 2018, and as the music director for Hong Kong International Chamber Music Festival since 2011.
An avid chamber musician, Lin appears at the Beijing Music Festival, as well as his perennial appearances performing at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Aspen Music Festival, and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. He is also featured in the film4 as the principal violin of the Vivaldi's Autumn in one of the Four Quartets of the Four Seasons.
He plays the 1715 "Titian"Stradivarius.
In 2023, he stepped down as the artistic director of the Taipei Music Academy and Festival following accusations by two women of sexual harassment.[1][2]
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