Joseph Lin (; born 1978) is a

Taiwanese-American Taiwanese Americans () are Americans who carry full or partial ancestry from Taiwan. This includes American-born citizens who descend from migrants from Taiwan. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, 49% of Taiwanese Americans lived in the state of Califo ...

violinist. From 2011 to 2018, he was the first violinist of the

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. Currently, he is on the violin and chamber music faculty of the

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Early life and education

Lin was born in the United States to immigrant parents from Taiwan. He attended the Juilliard School Pre-College Division and later graduated ''magna cum laude'' from Harvard College in 2000.

Career

Lin has performed with many orchestras, including the

Boston Symphony Orchestra The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is an American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the second-oldest of the five major American symphony orchestras commonly referred to as the " Big Five". Founded by Henry Lee Higginson in 1881, ...

Boston Pops Orchestra The Boston Pops Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts, specializing in light classical and popular music. The orchestra's current music director is Keith Lockhart. Founded in 1885 as an offshoot of the Boston Symp ...

, Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra, Kyiv Chamber Orchestra, Moravian Philharmonic,

Sapporo Symphony Orchestra The Sapporo Symphony Orchestra (札幌交響楽団 ''Sapporo Kokyo Gakudan'') is a Japanese orchestra based in Sapporo, Japan. Colloquially known as "Sakkyo", this is the only professional orchestra in Hokkaido. The orchestra gives its concerts a ...

National Symphony Orchestra (Taiwan) The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO; ), also known as Taiwan Philharmonic () outside Taiwan, is one of the leading orchestras in Asia. Since 1987, the orchestra has its residence in the National Theater and Concert Hall (Taiwan) in Taipei, Taiwan ...

New Japan Philharmonic The is a symphony orchestra based in Tokyo, Japan. It was founded in 1972 with Seiji Ozawa as honorary conductor laureate. The Philharmonic's primary concert venue is the Sumida Triphony Hall. From 2003 to 2013 its music director was Christi ...

, and the Auckland Symphony Orchestra. As a chamber musician, he appears regularly at several festivals, including Ravinia,

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, and

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. He was an assistant professor of violin at

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from 2007 to 2011. In 2010 he was appointed first violinist of the

and thus started teaching at Juilliard. At the completion of the 2017–18 season, he stepped down from the Juilliard String Quartet to devote more time to his four young children, while continuing to teach at the Juilliard. In 1996, he won first prize at the

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International Competition and was named a

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. In 1999, he was the youngest musician to receive the Pro Musicis International award. A year later, he was a prizewinner in the Hanover International Violin Competition. In 2001, he was the winner of the inaugural edition of the

Michael Hill International Violin Competition The Michael Hill International Violin Competition is a biennial music competition for violinists aged between 18 and 28. It was founded by Michael Hill in 2001 as the Michael Hill World Violin Competition. Hill remains a major sponsor, claiming t ...

. In 2006, the

Formosa Quartet The Formosa Quartet is an American string quartet. The quartet won the First Prize and the Amadeus Prize at the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition in 2006, and is committed to championing the indigenous music of under-represent ...

, of which he was a founding member, won first prize and the Amadeus prize in the London International String Quartet Competition. Lin began studying violin with Mary Canberg, then with Shirley Givens at Juilliard and

Lynn Chang Lynn Chang () (born 1953) is a Chinese American violinist known for his work as both a soloist and a chamber musician. Chang is a founding member of the Boston Chamber Music Society and is currently a faculty member at MIT, Boston University, the ...

at Harvard.

References

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Early life and education

Career

See also

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