CHO-LIANG LIN
(violin)

Cho-Liang Lin is one of today’s foremost violinists, appearing annually with major orchestras and in recital and chamber music series on five continents. Last season he was honored as Musical America’s Instrumentalist of the Year for 2000. Recently named Artistic Director of SummerFest La Jolla, with his inaugural season beginning in August 2001, Mr. Lin continues to concertize. In May 2001 he will present the New York premiere of Christopher Rouse’s Violin Concerto with the New York Philharmonic. Other 2000-2001 season highlights include orchestral performances with the Boston, Houston, St. Louis and Vancouver symphonies, as well as the Rochester Philharmonic. Overseas, he will perform with orchestras in France, Sweden, Spain, Japan and Taiwan.

In November 2000, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center saluted Mr. Lin in a special concert with pianists Emanuel Ax, Jon Kimura Parker and Bright Sheng, and cellist Gary Hoffman. This season he will present recitals with Mr. Parker in Washington and Dallas and embark on a fourteen-city tour of chamber music recitals with pianist Andre-Michel Schub.

During the summer of 2000 Mr. Lin performed in the Olympic Arts Festival in Sydney with the Asian Youth Orchestra conducted by Sergiu Commisiona and celebrated Isaac Stern’s 80th birthday in a gala concert in Tokyo’s Suntory Hall. Also in 2000, Mr. Lin presented his second Taipei International Music Festival, participated in the Naantali Festival in Finland and the Aspen Music Festival, and performed in Santiago, Buenos Aires, and Singapore, among other engagements.

Cho-Liang Lin is an advocate for contemporary composers, premiering concertos by Tan Dun, Joel Hoffman, Christopher Rouse, and Elie Siegmeister, just to name a few. In addition to the New York premiere of Gordon Chin’s Phantasy scheduled for Juilliard’s Irene Diamond concert, Mr. Lin will present the world premiere of two Gordon Chin concertos he commissioned in San Diego and Taipei.

Cho-Liang Lin has released many recordings on the Sony Classical label, which has garnered him Gramophone awards and Stereo Review "Record of the Year" honors as well as two Grammy nominations. His most recent Sony Classical albums are a disc of sonatas by Debussy, Poulenc and Ravel with pianist Paul Crossley and a Schubert chamber music disc. He has also recorded Tan Dun’s Out of Peking Opera with the Helsinki Philharmonic led by Muhai Tang for the Ondine label. A recent release on Decca’s Argo label is his recording of Aaron Jay Kernis’s Concerto for Violin and Guitar with conductor Hugh Wolff, guitarist Sharon Isbin and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.

Born in Taiwan, Cho-Liang Lin began his studies at the age of five. Inspired as a teenager in Australia by a master class given by Itzhak Perlman, Mr. Lin pursued studies with Mr. Perlman’s teacher, Dorothy DeLay. Immediately upon arriving in New York in 1975 at the age of fifteen, he enrolled at The Juilliard School, under Miss DeLay’s tutaledge. Today, he is a member of the Juilliard faculty and resides in New York City. His violin is the 1734 Guarnerius del Gesù "The Duke of Camposelice."