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Pianist Gloria Lin appears in major venues and cities around the world such as Alice Tully Hall and the United Nations in New York; Washington DC; the Ford Center in Toronto, Canada; France; Japan, Spain; Venezuela; and her native Taiwan. Highlights include appearances in the US at Chamber Music America’s 25th Anniversary Marathon Concert at Symphony Space, and the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York; SummerFest La Jolla, California; the XIV International Music Festival in Morelia, Mexico; the Carlos Chavez Hall in Mexico City; and the Congress of the Americas, as well as return performances in Morelia, Mexico, presented by the Carlos Prieto International Cello Competition; at the Sociedad Filarmonica series in Lima, Peru, and in the Cliburn at the Modern series and in the TCU Faculty & Friends Chamber Music Series in Fort Worth, Texas. Her performances have been broadcast on prestigious national and international media such as NPR’s Performance Today, WNYC’s Soundcheck, and Japanese public television NHK.
An active chamber musician, Gloria Lin is a founding member of the Lin / Castro-Balbi duo with cellist Jesús Castro-Balbi, ensemble which released Rapsodia Latina, an album including seven world premiere recordings of works with a Latin American flavor (available at www.filarmonika.com).
Among numerous awards, Gloria Lin is the winner of the Dora Zaslavsky Koch Piano Competition, the Chopin Council of Greater New York Competition, and was awarded the Grand Prize at the Young Keyboard Artist Association International Competition as well as the First Prize at the National Youth Piano Competition in Taiwan. She received the Outstanding Achievement Award at the University of Michigan, and the United States Presidential Award at the Interlochen Arts Academy.
Dr. Lin was educated at The Juilliard School (Pre-College division), the Interlochen Arts Academy, the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (Bachelor of Music), the Manhattan School of Music (Master of Music), and at Indiana University-Bloomington (Doctor of Music). Her mentors include Martin Canin, Isidore Cohen, Rostislav Dubinsky, Joseph Kalischtein, Nina Lelchuk, Solomon Mikowsky, Aldo Parisot, György Sebök, and Fred Sherry.
A dedicated pedagogue, Dr. Lin is a former Piano Instructor at Indiana University-Bloomington and in the Piano Pedagogy Program at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Summer teaching includes the Amati Music Festival in Hunter, New York and Conservatory Music in the Mountains in Durango, Colorado. Dr. Lin currently serves on the piano and musicology faculty at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth and maintains an active private studio.
2009
Website: www.glorialin.com
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