HELEN LIN

Helen Lin always performs with great passion and compelling energy. She performs to the highest level from which she communicates the essence of music combined with her brilliant imagination and exceptional pianism. Her musicality exhibits great individuality, command, and unusually strong musical conviction with flaming temperament.

Since 1996, her performances have been broadcast on media like television and radio stations usually all through the United States. Lins expert arrangements have range from performing as a full-scholarship recipient at the Tanglewood Music Festival, Tchaikovsky Music Festival, and Wagner Music Festival, to touring as a recitalist,

concerto soloist, and chamber musician in Austria, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Russia, Spain, the United States, and her birth place Taiwan.

Lin has won numerous awards on different Piano Competitions: The Young Artist International Piano Competition, Rising Star Concert Series Piano Competition, IBLA Grand Price International Piano Competition and a lot more.

Besides her career as a concert pianist, Lin was also the Resident Artist for Steinway & Sons pianos at Premier Pianos in Cincinnati, Ohio in 2005. She has been a Master Teacher and Artist-in-Residence at the Community Conservatory of Music in Doylestown, Pennsylvania since 2006. Lin serves as a piano chair at Alvernia College and Albert Conservatory since 2007. Moreover, Lin was a member of the piano faculty for the Preparatory Department, a staff accompanist for the String Department at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and an opera coach for the Opera Department. There, she held students recitals regularly under the sponsorship of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Premier Pianos. Currently, she is a piano professor at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan; a guest visiting professor at Taiwan University (Taiwan, Shandong), Weifang University (Weifang, Shandong), University of Technology (Zibo, Shandong), and Zhaoqing University (Zhaoqing, Guangzhou), China. She has attended the Juilliard School of Music and Michigan State University for her Bachelors Degree where she was under the guidance of Tchaikovsky gold medalist Chen-Zhong Yin and Van Cliburn gold medalist Ralph Votapek. She continued her studies under the multiple gold prize winners and most wanted piano teachers in the United States, the Pridonoff Duo and the eminent scholar James Tocco for the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance and Literature after receiving a Master of Music degree at Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

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