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Composer and performer, studied composition with Michalsky at State University, Fullerton and with Erickson, Partch, Gaburo and Oliveros (composition and electronic media) at the University of California, San Diego.
In 1970 he became professor of music and director of the electronic music studios at San Jose State University. Strange is one of the leading authorities on analogue electronic music; his Electronic Music: Systems, Techniques, and Controls is now a classic text. He co-founded two performance groups, Biome (1967--72), and, with Buchla in 1974, the Electronic Weasel Ensemble. He has appeared as a guest artist-lecturer throughout the world. With his wife, Patricia, they have published The Contemporary Violin: Extended Performance Techniques.
Strange composes for live electronic instrumental ensembles, for live and taped electronics with voices and acoustic instruments, and for the theatre; most of his works for acoustic instruments require extended performance techniques. Elements of vaudeville, rock-and-roll, country-and-western music, and the guitar techniques of Les Paul are found in his works. Strange’s works, including a number of premieres, have been frequently featured on New Music Works programs over the past fifteen years. Strange lived on Bainbridge Island, Wa. pursuing a full-time career composing and concertizing with his wife.
Barry Phillips, Cellist/Composer
Barry received a Masters of Music degree in composition from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Since 1996 Barry has been a student of, and a compositional assistant to Ravi Shankar.
Barry has been musician, arranger and producer of many recordings of Celtic and American folk music on the Gourd label including the music of Ireland, Scotland, American Shaker music, Shape Note tunes,Colonial American folk and classical.He engineered and arranged strings for Martin Simpson's CD Bramble Briar which won BBC Radio 2 "Album of the Year 2002". His most recent release, "TrÂd." is a collection of Scandinavian tunes arranged for cello, nyckelharpa and fiddle.
He has composed and conducted for films for independent films, for HBO and Showtime television and besides his own recordings, Barry has concertized and recorded with many fine musicians including Alasdair Fraser (fiddle), Martin Simpson (guitar), and Anoushka Shankar (sitar), and performed at the "Concert for George" (Harrison) at the Royal Albert Hall.
Roscoe Mitchell, Composer
Innovator as a solo performer; his role in the resurrection of long neglected woodwind instruments of extreme register, and his reassertion of the composer into what has traditionally been an improvisational form have placed him at the forefront of contemporary music for over forty years.
He is a founding member of the world renowned Art Ensemble of Chicago, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, The Creative Arts Collective, the Sound Ensemble, the Note Factory and the Trio Space.
Mr. Mitchell is the recipient of many honors and awards including the following: The International Jazz Critics Poll, Down Beat Magazine [Composer "Talent Deserving Wider Recognition", Best Jazz Group (Established)-Art Ensemble of Chicago, Record of the Year- Nonaah]; Jazz Personality of the Year, City of Madison, Wisconsin; Named Madison Music Legend by ìMadisonî Magazine; Certificate of Appreciation, The St. Louis Public Schools Role Model Experiences Program; Honorary Citizen of Atlanta, GA; Outstanding Service to Jazz Education Award, National Association of Jazz
He has received numerous composition and performance grants from the National Endowment for the Arts; Arts Midwest Jazz Masters; the John Cage Award for Music-Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Inc.; November Music 2000; Michigan State University matching grant; the Minnesota Composer's Forum; Meet the Composer, Cultural Series Grant, Center for International Performance and Exhibition, Chicago IL; Mutable Music; the Comnicut Foundation; the Wisconsin Arts Board; the Institut de Recherche at Coordination Acoustique Musique, Paris; Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission Project Grant, Madison Committee for the Arts; and the Madison Festival of the Lakes Grant.
Mr. Mitchell is the founder of the Creative Arts Collective of East Lansing, Michigan, The Roscoe Mitchell Sextet, The Roscoe Mitchell Quartet, The Roscoe Mitchell Art Ensemble, The Sound Ensemble, The Roscoe Mitchell New Chamber Ensemble, and Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory.
On May 20, 1998, at Alice Tully Hall, Mr. Mitchell premiered "Fallen Heroes", a work for Orchestra, Baritone Voice, and Solo Alto Saxophone. In November 2000, Mr. Mitchell premiered two new compositions in ës-Hertogenbosch, Nederlands; Gent, Belgium; and Essen, Germany. ìThe Bells of Fifty Ninth Streetî, a work for,Alto Saxophone and Gamelan Orchestra, and ì59Aî, a composition for Solo Soprano Saxophone.
November 9, 2006 Mr. Mitchell premiered two compositions in New York City at Merkin Concert Hall: ìWHITE TIGER DISGUISEî for Baritone Voice and String Quintet and ìFar Sideî for Alto Saxophone and three Double Basses. He also premiered in March 2007 three new works for his large ensemble ìThe Note Factory,î ìExflover Five, ì ìQuintet 2007A For Eightî and ìTrio Four For Eightî in Bergamo, Italy, Nickelsdorf, Austria and Berghausen, Germany.
August 2007, Mr. Mitchell assumed the Diarius Milhaud Chair at Mills College, Oakland, California
John Scoville
Raised in Connecticut, ruined in New York, and restored in California. He is the resident music director and composer for Tandy Beal & Company and is on the faculty of the University of Utah. He has taught workshops and accompanied dance classes in Europe, Asia, South America and throughout the United States. His sound installations have been heard in Tokyo, São Paulo, Santa Cruz, and Salt Lake City. Scores for choreographers include works for Alwin Nikolais, Murray Louis, Laura Dean, Sara Rudner and the Oakland Ballet. He is the recipient of grants from the California Arts Commission, Meet the Composer/West, and the Utah Arts Council. He is co-author of Sound Designs.If he hadn't met his latest wife Tandy 43 years ago, he'd be playing guitar in a country and western band in Nashville and voting Republican.
Hi Kyung Kim, Composer
Hi Kyung KIM received B.A. in composition from Seoul National University, and the M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. As a recipient of the U.C. Berkeley's George C. Ladd Prix de Paris, she worked at IRCAM and …cole Normale SupÈrieure in Paris in 1988-1990. Her composition teachers were Andrew† Imbrie, Olly Wilson, GÈrard Grisey, and Sung-Jae Lee. Currently she is an associate professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz and artistic director of Pacific Rim Music Festival.
Her honors/awards include the Walter Hinrichsen Award† from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Koussevitzky Commission from the Library of Congress, Fromm Foundation at Harvard University, Fulbright Scholar Award, Commissioning USA grant from Meet the Composer, Tanglewood Music Center, MacDowell Colony, Djerassi Foundation, Cleveland Dodge Foundation, Korea Foundation, American Music Center, grants from the University of California InterCampus Arts Program for the Pacific Rim Music Festival and others.
Her recent commissions include pieces by Meet the Composer and Yo-Yo Ma and the Chamber Music Society of Minnesota, Alexander String Quartet, Aki Takahashi & Rae Imamura, Ensemble Parallele and UC Santa Cruz Chamber Singers among others.
Her recent project trilogy Rituels for Korean Dancer/percussionist, Korean Ensemble and Western Ensemble, was featured at the Other Minds Festival, Herbst Theatre, UC Arts & Lectures, Chamber Music Society of Sacramento, National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts, Symposium for International Musicological Society in Melbourne, and the Festival/Conference of Inter-cultural creativity in Sydney, Australia. The piece, Rituel III, the last in the Rituel series was presented at the Pacific Rim Music Festival, Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles, and at the San Francisco International Arts Festival in May 2005, which is in plan to receive itís concert tour to New York, Washington DC, Korea and Europe.
Hyo-shin Na, Composer
After studying piano and composition in her native Korea, Hyo-shin Na came to the U.S. in 1983 to do graduate work at the Manhattan School of Music and the University of Colorado, where she received her doctorate, then moved in 1988 to San Francisco. In the U.S. she met Cage, Rzewski, Wolff and Takahashi, and encountered the music of Nancarrow. At the same time, she made return trips to Korea to hear and study traditional Korean music while also taking a broad interest in the music of other regions of Asia.
Hyo-shin Na has written for western instruments, for traditional Korean instruments and has written music that combines western and Asian (Korean and Japanese) instruments and ways of playing. Her music for traditional Korean instruments is recognized by both composers and performers in Korea (particularly by the younger generation) as being uniquely innovative. Her writing for combinations of western and eastern instruments is unusual in its refusal to compromise the integrity of differing sounds and ideas; she prefers to let them interact, coexist and conflict in the music.
In Korea, she has twice been awarded the Korean National Composers Prize, and in the west she has been commissioned by the Fromm and Koussevitzky Foundations among many others. Her music has been played worldwide by ensembles as varied as the Barton Workshop, the San Francisco?Contemporary Music Players, the Kronos Quartet, and the Korean Traditional Orchestra of the National Theatre.
She is the author of the bilingual book "Conversations with Kayageum Master Byung-ki Hwang° (Pulbit Press, 2001) and the translator into Korean of Christian Wolff°'s article °Experiments in Music around 1950 and Some Consequences and Causes Social-political and Musical)° (Soomoon-dang Press, 2008). Her music has been recorded on the Fontec (Japan), Top Arts (Korea), Seoul (Korea) and New World Records labels (US) and has been published in Korea and Australia. Since 2006 her music has been published exclusively by Lantro Music (Belgium).
Frederic Rzewski, Composer
Frederic Rzewski was born in 1938 in Massachusetts, studied at Harvard and Princeton with Piston and Babbitt, worked subsequently in Italy with Dallapiccola, befriended Christian Wolff, Cornelius Cardew, David Behrman, and the jazz musicians Steve Lacy and Anthony Braxton, and was influenced by the work of Cage, Tudor, Carter, Scelsi, Pousseur, and Stockhausen, among others. He was, for many years, Professor of Composition at the Conservatoire Royal de Musique in Liege, Belgium and lives now in Brussels.
Aaron Jay Kernis, Composer/Pianist
Winner of the coveted 2002 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition and one of the youngest composers ever to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize, Aaron Jay Kernis is among the most esteemed musical figures of his generation.
His works figure prominently on orchestral, chamber, and recital programs around the world. He has been commissioned by many of America's foremost performers, including sopranos Renee Fleming and Dawn Upshaw, violinists Joshua Bell, Pamela Frank, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and James Ehnes, pianist Christopher O'Riley and guitarist Sharon Isbin. Commissions have also come from such musical institutions as the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra (for the inauguration of its new home at the Kimmel Center), Walt Disney Company, San Francisco and Singapore Symphonies, Minnesota Orchestra, Lincoln Center Great Performers Series and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, among others. His work was heard last season on programs of orchestras from Philadelphia to Amsterdam (Concertgebouw, Amsterdam Sinfonietta), Santa Barbara to France (Orchestra National De France), Detroit, Seattle, and throughout Europe. Recent commissions include a new work for James Conlon's first season as Ravinia Festival Music Director, a work for the BBC Proms, a song cycle for the opening of the new San Francisco Conservatory. He looks forward to new works for trumpet soloist Philip Smith with the New York Philharmonic and a consortium of American's "top 10" college wind ensembles, Seattle Symphony, Minnesota's Chopin Society, American Guild of Organists, and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
One of America's most honored young composers, Mr. Kernis received the coveted Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition (2002) for the cello and orchestra version of "Colored Field," the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for his String Quartet No. 2 ("musica instrumentalis"), and Grammy Award nominations for both "Air" and his Second Symphony. He has also been awarded the Stoeger Prize from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rome Prize, an NEA grant, a Bearns Prize, a New York Foundation for the Arts Award, and three BMI Student Composer Awards. He has become an especially familiar and much-admired presence in Minnesota's Twin Cities; in September 1993, he was appointed Composer-in-Residence for the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Public Radio, and American Composers Forum, and he returned in the fall of 1998 as New Music Advisor to the Minnesota Orchestra, a position he retains to this day. As an educator he co-runs the Minnesota Orchestra's Composer Institute, an extraordinary national for young composers, and teaches composition at Yale School of Music.
His works have been recorded on Nonesuch, New Albion, CRI, Arabesque, Virgin/EMI, Cedille and Argo. Several of his important works recorded on Argo have been recently re-released by Phoenix, including his Second Symphony, Musica Celestis for String Orchestra, Invisible Moasic III and Symphony in Waves, with Gerard Schwarz and the New York Chamber Symphony. Upcoming recordings include a disc of his song cycles by soprano Susan Narucki on Koch, and the release of orchestral works by the Grant Park Festival Orchestra on Cedille Records.
Aaron Jay Kernis was born in Philadelphia on January 15, 1960. He began his musical studies on the violin; at age 12 he began teaching himself piano and, the following year, composition. He continued his studies at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Manhattan and Yale Schools of Music, working with composers as diverse as John Adams, Charles Wuorinen and Jacob Druckman. Kernis first came to national attention in 1982 with the acclaimed premiere of his first orchestral work, "dream of the morning sky," by the New York Philharmonic at its Horizons Festival. Mr. Kernis's music is published by Associated Music Publishers, and since 2001 by AJK Music for which Boosey & Hawkes acts as administrating publisher.
Terry Riley, Composer
California Composer Terry Riley launched what is now known as the Minimalist movement with his revolutionary classic IN C in 1964. This seminal work provided a new concept in musical form based on interlocking repetitive patterns. It's impact was to change the course of 20th Century music and it's influence has been heard in the works of prominent composers such as Steve Reich, Philip Glass and John Adams and in the music of Rock Groups such as The Who, The Soft Machine, Tangerine Dream, Curved Air and many others. Terry's hypnotic, multi-layered, polymetric, brightly orchestrated eastern flavored improvisations and compositions set the stage for the prevailing interest in a New Tonality.
In 1970, Terry became a disciple of the revered North Indian Raga Vocalist, Pandit Pran Nath and made the first of his numerous trips to India to study with the Master. He appeared frequently in concert with the legendary singer as tampura, tabla and vocal accompanist over the next 26 years until Pran Naths passing in 1996.
While teaching at Mills College in Oakland in the 1970's he met David Harrington, founder and leader of the Kronos Quartet that began the long association that has so far produced 13 string quartets, a quintet, Crows Rosary and a concerto for string quartet, The Sands which was the Salzburg Festival's first ever new music commission and the 2003 SUN RINGS, the multi media piece for choir, visuals and Space sounds, commissioned by NASA. Most recently he has completed THE CUSP OF MAGIC, for string quartet and pipa. Cadenza on the Night Plain was selected by both Time and Newsweek as one of the 10 best Classical albums of the year. The epic 5 quartet cycle, Salome Dances for Peace was selected as the #1 Classical album of the year by USA Today and was nominated for a Grammy.
Riley's innovative first orchestral piece Jade Palace was commissioned by Carnegie Hall for the Centennial celebration 1990/91. It was premiered there by Leonard Slatkin and the Saint Louis Symphony. June Buddha's, for Chorus and Orchestra, based on Jack Kerouac's Mexico City Blues was commissioned by the Koussevitsky foundation in 1991. The Rova Saxophone Quartet, the Arte saxophone quartet, Array Music, Zeitgeist, the Steven Scott Bowed Piano Ensemble, The California E.A.R. unit, Guitarist's David Tanenbaum, the Assad brothers. Cello Conjunto, the Abel Steinberg-Winant Trio, Pianist Werner Bartschi and the Amati Quartet are some of the performers and ensembles who have commissioned and performed his works. From 1989 to1993 he formed and lead the ensemble Khayal to perform works written for them. He subsequently formed The Allstars and the Vigil Band. He regularly performs solo piano concerts of his works from the past 30 years. He also appears in duo concerts with Indian Sitarist Krishna Bhatt, Saxophonist George Brooks, Gyan Riley and especially with virtuoso Italian bassist, Stefano Scodanibbio. In 1992, he formed the small theater company, The Travelling-Avantt-Gaard to perform the chamber opera The Saint Adolf Ring based on the divinely mad drawings, poetry, writings and mathematical calculations of Adolf Woelfli, an early 20th century Swiss Artist who suffered from schizophrenia and created his entire output over a 35 year span while confined in a mental institution. Terry is currently at work on a set of 24 pieces for guitar and guitar ensemble called The Book of Abbeyozzud and has recently completed a book of 5 pieces for piano, four hands. In 1999 he was commissioned by the Norwich Festival to compose a new work, WHAT THE RIVER SAID, which toured Britain with the UK based group, Sounds Bazaar featuring the great drupad vocalist Amelia Cuni. Then followed a commission from the Kanagawa Foundation in Yokohama to create an evening length work for solo piano in micro tonal tuning. THE DREAM, which received simultaneous premiers in Rome and in Yokohama performed by the composer.
The new millennium began with a tour of a new band, Terry Riley and the All Stars which included George Brooks, saxophones, Tracy Silverman, Violin and 6 string Viola, Gyan Riley Guitar and Stefano Scodanibbio, string Bass with the final concert launching the first New Sounds Live concert of the 21st Century at Merkin Hall. BANANA HUMBERTO 2000, a piano concerto, was written for and performed many times by the composer with the Paul Dresher Ensemble. He is at work on a new solo cello piece commissioned by legendary Artist Bruce Connor to be performed by former Kronos Quartet cellist, Jean Jeanrenaud. Music for a new staging of Michael McClures play, Josephine the Mouse Singer was written for a run in February 2001 at San Francisco's SoMart theater.
In 2004 Terry and Michael released their first collaborative album, I LIKE YOUR EYES LIBERTY. In May of 2000, Terry made his first tour of Russia with solo piano concerts at the Sergei Kuryokin Festival in Saint Petersburg and at the Moscow Conservatory and the Dom, a privately run contemporary music club. The review of these concerts in Izvestia proclaimed "Terry Riley to be the greatest composer pianist since Prokofieff.
Terry has scored 3 feature films and has made music for numerous short films including those of Bruce Conner.
In 2003 his plans for the new TIME LAG ACCUMULATOR were realized and constructed for the Festival of Lille. This 9 room mirrored structure with multi time delays was modeled on the original TIME LAG ACCUMULATOR assembled in 1968 for the Magic Theatre Show at the Nelson Atkins Gallery in Kansas City. The new TLA will reside at the museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon France. Riley was listed in the London Sunday Times as "one of the 1000 makers of the 20th Century."
John Cage, Composer
John Cage was born on September 5, 1912 in Los Angeles, California and died in New York City on August 12, 1992. He studied liberal arts at Pomona College. Among his composition teachers were Henry Cowell and Arnold Schoenberg. Cage was elected to the American National Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and received innumerable awards and honors both in the United States and in Europe. He was commissioned by a great many of the most important performing organizations throughout the world, and maintained a very active schedule.
It would be extremely difficult to calculate, let alone critically evaluate, the stimulating effect and ramifications that Cage's work has had on 20th century music and art, for it is clear that the musical developments of our time cannot be understood without taking into account his music and ideas. His invention of the prepared piano and his work with percussion instruments led him to imagine and explore many unique and fascinating ways of structuring the temporal dimension of music. He is universally recognized as the initiator and leading figure in the field of indeterminate composition by means of chance operations. Arnold Schoenberg said of Cage that he was an "inventor of genius."
Lou Harrison, Composer (1917-2003)
The composer Lou Harrison died suddenly in the evening of February 2, 2003. He was traveling to Columbus Ohio, after having taken the California Zephyr from the West Coast to Chicago, en route to a festival in his honor at Ohio State University. During a stop along the way Mr. Harrison fell in an apparent heart attack and was pronounced dead shortly thereafter. New Albion has had a long professional and personal relationship with Mr. Harrison, and released a number of his recordings, with two more in process, yet we are just a small spoke in the wheel of friends, composers, musicians, conductors, labels, publishers, artists and creative individuals who have been inspired by the deep spirituality and indomitable melodic line Lou offered the world. He is held close to many hearts, a hero in life and art.
It was Mozart's boast that he could master any musical style within a week and by the end of that time compose in it adeptly enough to deceive experts... Lou Harrison has something of that virtuosity himself...and he mixes things with infallible imagination...
—Virgil Thomson
For fifty years, Lou Harrison was in the vanguard of American composers. An innovator of musical composition and performance that transcended cultural boundaries, Harrison's highly acclaimed work juxtaposes and synthesizes musical dialects from virtually every corner of the world. Born in Portland, Oregon, on May 14, 1917, Lou Harrison grew up in the culturally diverse San Francisco Bay Area. There he was influenced by Cantonese Opera, Gregorian chants and the music of California's Spanish and Mexican cultures. Harrison also developed an interest in Indonesian Gamelan music through early recordings.
As a young man, Lou Harrison worked as a dancer and a dance accompanist. His early compositions included a large body of percussion music, combining Western, Asian, African and Latin American rhythmic influences with homemade 'junk' instruments. During this period, Harrison worked closely with John Cage and began studies in Los Angeles with Arnold Schoenberg. A move to New York in the mid-forties brought Lou Harrison to the Herald Tribune as music critic. Here Harrison helped to bring wider attention to the work of Charles Ives, and is considered largely responsible for Ives' receiving the Pulitzer Prize. The young composer and critic also embarked on a study of early European music during this period. In the late forties, Harrison taught at the legendary Black Mountain College. By the early fifties, he moved back to California, where he has lived ever since.
Residence on the West Coast intensified Harrison's involvement in a synthesis of musical cultures bordering on the Pacific, reflected in such works as "Pacifica Rondo" and "Lo Koro Sutro" for chorus and gamelan. Over the decades he maintained an interest in dance, theater and the craft of instrument building and was an accomplished puppeteer who wrote musical pieces for puppet theater.
Lou Harrison traveled extensively, adding to the global resonance his artistry, performing and studying with the musical masters of varied cultures, and presenting his work to enthusiastic audiences everywhere.
Mei-Fang Lin, Composer, Pianist
Mei-Fang Lin was born in Taiwan. After her undergraduate study at the National Taiwan Normal University, she came to the United States and finished her master’s degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley. Her teachers have included Edmund Campion, Edwin Dugger, Guy Garnett, Sever Tipei and Hwang-Long Pan. Supported by the Frank Huntington Beebe Foundation in Boston and the George Ladd Paris Prize from UC Berkeley, she also spent three years in Paris studying composition with Philippe Leroux, orchestration with Marc-André Dalbavie, and was selected to pursue the one-year computer music course “Cursus de Composition” at IRCAM in Paris in 2003-2004. Lin is currently a visiting professor of composition and theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Awards for Lin’s music have come from the Seoul International Competition for Composers in Korea (2nd Prize, 2007), Bourges Competition in France (Finalist, 2006; Residence Prize, 2001), Look & Listen Festival Prize in US (1st Prize, 2002), Pierre Schaeffer Competition in Italy (3rd Prize, 2002), SCI/ASCAP Student Commission Competition in US (3rd Prize, 2001), Luigi Russolo Competition in Italy (Honorary Mention, 2001), Prix SCRIME in France (1st Prize, 2000), National Association of Composers, USA Competition (1st Prize, 2000), 21st Century Piano Commission Competition in US (Winner, 1999), Music Taipei Composition Competition in Taiwan (Honorary Mention, 1998; Special Prize, 1997). She has also been granted commissions and fellowships from the American Composers Forum, San Francisco Arts Commission, American Music Center, Frank Huntington Beebe Foundation, French Ministry of Culture, Kate Neal Kinley Foundation, ASCAP Foundation, Taiwanese Ministry of Culture, University of California, University of Illinois…etc.
Among the ensembles who have performed her music include the Nieuw Ensemble (Amsterdam), Kammerensemble Neue Musik (Berlin), Washington Square Ensemble (New York), Ensemble Surplus (Freiburg), Yarn/Wire (New York), Ensemble Concorde (Dublin), San Francisco Contemporary Music Players (San Francisco), Armonia Opus Trio (Buenos Aires), Melos-Etos (Bratislava), Parnassus Ensemble (New York), Ensemble Cairn (Paris), North/South Consonance (New York), Alea III (Boston), California E.A.R. Unit (Los Angeles), Empyrean Ensemble (Davis), Left Coast Chamber Ensemble (San Francisco), Nodus Ensemble (Florida), Chicago Ensemble (Chicago), I-Chamber (Phoenix), Contemporary Chamber Orchestra Taipei (Taiwan)…etc. Her music has also been heard in international festivals such as the ISCM World Music Days (Hong Kong, Slovenia), Festival Résonances (France), Asian Pacific Music Festival (New Zealand), Alba Music Festival (Italy), The Seoul International Computer Music Festival (Korea), Ostrava Music Days (Czech Republic), Amadeus Piano Festival (US), Festival Synthèse (France), Vancouver Pro Musica Festival (Canada), Festival HTMLLES (Canada), Maxis Festival (UK), ppIANISSIMO Festival (Bulgaria), En Red O Festival (Spain)…etc.
Lin remains an active conductor and pianist focusing on contemporary repertoire. She is currently Associate Conductor with the University of Illinois New Music Ensemble.
