Gloria Lin

Internationally acclaimed pianist Gloria Lin has performed at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Symphony Space, Kosciuszko Foundation, the United Nations, at the Ford Center in Toronto, and in China, France, Mexico, Peru, Japan, Spain, and Venezuela. She is a guest at such prestigious series and venues as the international festivals in Cartagena, Colombia and in Morelia, Mexico; the Sociedad Filarmonica in Lima, the University of Texas at Dallas, the Cliburn at the Modern, and the Fort Worth Chamber Music Society. She has been featured on prominent national and international media, including NPR’s Performance Today, WNYC’s Soundcheck, national television and radio broadcasts in Colombia and Japan’s public television NHK.

Among other awards, Dr. Lin is the winner of the Dora Zaslavsky Koch Piano Competition, the Chopin Council of Greater New York Competition, the Grand Prize at the Young Keyboard Artist Association International Competition, and the First Prize at the Taiwan National Youth Piano Competition. She received the Outstanding Achievement Award at the University of Michigan, and the United States Presidential Award at the Interlochen Arts Academy.

An active chamber musician, Dr. Lin is the pianist of the Lin / Castro-Balbi Duo with cellist Jesús Castro-Balbi, a member of the music project Caminos del Inka, and is a much sough-after collaborative pianist with distinguished artists. Dr. Lin presented premiere performances and recordings of music written for her by Esteban Benzecry, Martin Blessinger, Luis Jorge González, and Till Meyn. Her discography includes Rapsodia Latina, an album with seven world premiere recordings (Filarmonika) and Robert Xavier Rodrίguez: Music for Cello and Piano (Albany Records).

Dr. Lin was educated at The Juilliard School, the Interlochen Arts Academy, the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Manhattan School of Music, and earned her Doctor of Music degree at Indiana University-Bloomington. She has led master-classes at Beijing’s Central Conservatory as well as at the National Conservatory in Lima, and the Conservatorio de las Rosas in Morelia, Mexico, among other institutions. She currently serves on the piano faculty at the Texas Christian University School of Music in Fort Worth, Texas.