Cho-Liang Lin

Cho-Liang Lin

Genres: Classical, violin, contemporary classical, american, taiwanese

About Cho-Liang Lin

LIN, CHO-LIANG (b 1960 ) 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 Thomas and Isaac Stern. 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. He is also the music director of La Jolla SummerFest in California. His recording of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons is available on Naxos 8.557920.

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