Lucia Lin

Lucia Lin

About Lucia Lin

LUCIA LIN made her debut performing the Mendelssohn Concerto with the Chicago Symphony at age eleven. Since then, she has been a prizewinner of numerous competitions, including the 1990 International Tschaikovsky Competition in Moscow. She has performed in solo recitals throughout the U.S., making her New York debut at Weill Recital Hall in March 1991, and has appeared with the Boston Pops Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Oklahoma Symphony, and the Festivalorchester in Graz, Austria. A frequent collaborator in chamber music, Ms. Lin is the newest member of the Muir String Quartet, quartet in residence at Boston University. She is also a founding member of the Boston Trio and the chamber group, Innuendo. She has performed at the Sapporo Music Festival, the Taos Chamber Music Festival, the Da Camera Society in Houston, the St. Barts Music Festival, and the Barbican Hall Chamber Series in London. She has also recorded for Nonesuch Records as a guest of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, for New World Records on a disc featuring the works of Bright Sheng. A native of Champaign, Illinois, Ms. Lin received her bachelors degree at the University of Illinois and her master's of music at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Important musical influences include Sergiu Luca, Paul Rolland, Josef Gingold, Dorothy DeLay, and Louis Krasner. Ms. Lin joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1985 and served as Assistant Concertmaster from 1988-91 and 1996-98. During the 1991-92 season, she was Acting Concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and during the 1994-96 season, she served as joint concertmaster of the London Symphony Orchestra. Schedules permitting, Ms. Lin enjoys occasional musical collaborations with her husband, Boston Pops Conductor, Keith Lockhart.

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