Viola
Born in Taiwan, Chen Lin has gained versatile reputation playing diverse styles of music, from Classical, Jazz, Tango, to Contemporary. Ms. Lin appears as soloist, chamber and orchestra musician at numerous venues, including recent
performances in Taiwan, Japan and the USA.
Ms. Lin has won awards at several competitions. She received the First Prize at Taipei Music Competition in 2003, the Fourth Prize at Taiwan Music Competition in 2004 and the Second Prize at Taipei Municipal University of Education’s Concerto
Competition. A winner of the American String Teachers Association State-Level Competition (for Massachusetts State, 2006), Ms. Lin also won the Viola Prize at Boston University’s Bach Competition in 2008. Joining the Boston String Quartet in 2005, Ms. Lin is frequently invited to play in numerous chamber music concerts in Boston area and has collaborated with Peter Zazofsky (first violinist of the Muir Quartet) and Marc Johnson (former cellist of the Vermeer Quartet).
As an orchestra musician, Ms. Lin received engagements with Boston Philharmonic
Orchestra, Lexington Symphony Orchestra, Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, among
others, and has been Principal Violist of Neponset Philharmonic Orchestra and
of Cape Ann Symphony Orchestra. A founding violist of the Boston Chamber
Orchestra, with the group, Ms. Lin was invited by Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
and Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies, to premiere and record Marcel Tyberg’s
String Sextet at Mary Scaton Room, Kleinhans Music Hall in Buffalo in 2009.
Ms. Lin is currently pursuing her Doctoral of Musical Arts Degree in Viola
Performance at Boston University, where she is a full scholarship student under
the tutorledge of Professor Michelle LaCourse, Chair of the String Department. She
serves as Teaching Assistant of the String Department and of Professor LaCourse,
and as String Chamber Music Assistant. Ms. Lin received her Bachelor’s degree in
Music and Education from Taipei Municipal University of Education (Taiwan), and
Master’s degree as a full scholarship student from The Boston Conservatory. Her
previous teachers include Lee-Weng Wang, Teizo Yoshinaga and Roger Tapping.
