JENNY LIN

Jenny Lin is one of the most respected young pianists today, admired for her adventurous programming and charismatic stage presence. She continues to receive accolades worldwide as an orchestral soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. The New York Times writes: “No one who has heard [her] will need to be told that Ms. Lin has a gift for melodic flow” and “remarkable technical command”, the Washington Post praises “Lin’s confident fingers… spectacular technique…” and Gramophone magazine has hailed her as “an exceptionally sensitive pianist”.

Her performances have taken her to venues such as Carnegie Recital Hall, Kennedy Center, Miller Theatre, Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum in New York, as well as at Chopin, Archipel, Flanders, Divonne, Ars Musica, BAM’s Next Wave and Spoleto USA Festivals, with groups such as Ensemble Contrechamps, Millennium Festival Orchestra and Flemish Radio Orchestra.

She is the subject of the documentary, “Zahara”, by Elemental Films Spain.

Highlights of this upcoming season include appearances with Orchestra Sinfonica Nationale della RAI in Italy, SWR Rundfunkorchester in Germany and an Asia Tour to Singapore, Malaysia, and China with the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan. Other performances will take her to the Smithsonian, the Phillips Collection, Corcoran Gallery, Symphony Space, 92nd Street Y, Alden Theater, and the Mostly Modern Festival of New York’s Austrian Cultural Forum.

Jenny records for Koch International Classics, Hanssler Classic, BIS Records, Sunrise Records, and Poem Culture Records. Her discography includes the critically acclaimed “Preludes to a Revolution”, “The 11th Finger”, complete piano music of Ruth Crawford Seeger, “Chinoiserie”, Liszt Sonata and Schumann Fantasy, and works by Chinese composers Guan Xia and Ma Yo-Dao. An album of Valentin Silvestrov’s piano music is due for release in fall 2006 as well as works for Piano and Orchestra by Ernest Bloch in 2007.

Jenny studied with Noel Flores at the Hochschule fur Musik in Vienna, with Julian Martin at the Peabody Conservatory (Artist Diploma) in Baltimore, and with Dominique Weber in Geneva. She has also worked with Richard Goode and Blanca Uribe in New York, and with Dimitri Bashkirov and Andreas Staier at the Fondazione Internazionale per il pianoforte in Cadenabbia, Italy. She holds a bachelor’s degree in German Literature from The Johns Hopkins University and currently resides in New York City where she serves on the faculty of the 92nd Street Y Music School.