Since his debut with the New York Philharmonic and Zubin Mehta at the age of 21, violinist Cho-Liang Lin hasenjoyed an international solo career for three decades. Mr. Lin has appeared with virtually every major orchestra in the world. He is equally at home in recital and chamber music. His many recordings have won awards such as Grammy® nominations and Gramophone Record of the Year. He was named by Musical America as its Instrumentalist of the Year in 2000.

Mr. Lin's recent concerts include solo appearances with the Stockholm Philharmonic, Toronto Symphony, Houston Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the New Zealand Symphony. Mr. Lin continues his advocacy for contemporary music by presenting the world première of the Violin Concerto of Tan Dun at CarnegieHall's China Festival in 2009. Composers such as Christopher Rouse, Bright Sheng and Lalo Schifrin have written solo concerti for him.

His wide-ranging musical interests are also reflected in his discography. Of close to 30 albums recorded, they range from Vivaldi Four Seasons, Bach Brandenburg Concerto, chamber music of Brahms to Schubert to the music of George Tsontakis, Chen Yi and Rouse. As Music Director of La Jolla Music Society SummerFest, he has helped commission works by Stewart Copeland, Chick Corea, Philip Glass, John Harbison, Magnus Lindberg, Mark O'Connor, PaulSchoenfield, Esa-Pekka Salonen and LeonKirchner, among others.

Born in Taiwan in 1960, Cho-Liang Lin began violin lessons when he was five years old. At the age of 12, he went to Sydney to continue his musical studies. His early teachers included Sylvia Lee, Helen Miller and Robert Pikler. Inspired by an encounter with Itzhak Perlman while in Sydney, he arrived in New York in 1975 to audition for Mr. Perlman's teacher, the late Dorothy DeLay. Within two years of his enrollment at the Juilliard School, Mr. Lin won the first Queen Sofia Violin Competition in Madrid and his concert career was soon launched. He has been a member of the Juilliard faculty since 1991 and is now the faculty of Rice University's Shepherd School of Music as well. He plays on the 1715 Stradivari "Titian."