Cho-Liang Lin 林昭亮, violinist
Violinist Cho-Liang Lin is lauded the world over for the eloquence of his playing and for the superb musicianship that marks his performances. In a concert career spanning the globe for more than thirty years, he is equally at home with orchestra, in recital, playing chamber music, and in a teaching studio.
Mr. Lin’s concert engagements reflect his wide-ranging musical activities. Performing on several continents, he appears as soloist with orchestras of Detroit, Toronto, Dallas, Houston, Nashville, San Diego and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; in Europe with the Bergen Philharmonic, Stockholm Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, and the English Chamber Orchestra; and in Asia with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Singapore Symphony, Malaysia Philharmonic, and Bangkok Symphony.
In recent seasons, Mr. Lin has expanded his orchestral engagements to include performances as both soloist and conductor. He completed season-long residencies with the Shanghai Symphony and with the Singapore Symphony which included engagements as soloist and conductor, participating in chamber music, and giving master classes. In 2012/13, Mr. Lin returns to play and conduct with the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan and the symphonies of Detroit, San Antonio, and Shanghai.
As an advocate for music of our time, Mr. Lin has enjoyed collaborations and premieres with composers such as Tan Dun, Joel Hoffman, John Harbison, Christopher Rouse, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Lalo Schifrin, Paul Schoenfield, Bright Sheng, and Joan Tower. An avid chamber musician, Mr. Lin appears at the Beijing Music Festival, as well as his perennial appearances performing at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Aspen Music Festival, and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.
As Music Director of La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest since 2001, Mr. Lin has helped develop a festival that once focused primarily on chamber music into a multidiscipline festival featuring dance, jazz and a burgeoning new music program commissioning composers as diverse as Chick Corea, Stewart Copeland, Leon Kirchner, Christopher Rouse, Wayne Shorter, Kaija Saariaho and Gunther Schuller. In Asia, Mr. Lin serves as Artistic Director of Hong Kong International Chamber Music Festival, and he was recently appointed Artistic Director of the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra’s Youth Music Summer Camp where he also conducts performances and serves as a member of the string faculty.
Cho-Liang Lin’s extensive discography includes recordings for Sony Classical, Decca, Ondine, Naxos and BIS. His albums have won such awards as Gramophone’s Record of the Year, as well as two Grammy Award nominations. His recordings reflect the breadth of his distinctive career including the standard violin concerti from Mozart to Stravinsky, chamber music from Brahms to Ravel and contemporary music from Chen Yi to Christopher Rouse. His most recent discs include Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with Sejong and Anthony Newman, violin works of Bright Sheng and Gordon Chin on Naxos, and the First Violin Concerto by George Tsontakis on Koch. Upcoming plans include recording a violin concerto by Joan Tower with the Nashville Symphony.
Born in Taiwan in 1960, Cho-Liang Lin began his violin lessons when he was 5 years old with Sylvia Lee. At the age of 12, he went to Sydney to continue his musical studies with Robert Pikler. Inspired by an encounter with Itzhak Perlman while in Sydney, he traveled to New York in 1975 to audition for Perlman’s teacher, the late Dorothy DeLay, at the Juilliard School. He was to study with Miss DeLay for six years. At the age of nineteen Mr. Lin made his New York debut at the Mostly Mozart Festival and soon thereafter with the New York Philharmonic and his concert career was launched. In 2000 Musical America named Mr. Lin its Instrumentalist of the Year. He was invited to join the faculty of the Juilliard School in 1991. More recently he was appointed professor of violin at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. He plays the 1715 “Titian” Stradivarius.
林昭亮近期的演出計畫橫跨多個領域。他在各大洲之間以獨奏家的身分巡迴演出，曾與美洲達拉斯樂團、多倫多樂團、休斯頓樂團、納什維爾樂團、底特律樂 團、聖地牙哥樂團和洛杉磯室內樂團合作過；與歐洲樂團如貝根愛樂樂團、斯德哥爾摩愛樂樂團、慕尼克愛樂樂團以及英國室樂團同台演出；在亞洲，與香港愛樂 樂團、新加坡交響樂團、馬來西亞愛樂樂團以及曼谷交響樂團共同演出。在 2010-2011 音樂季，他與上海交響樂團展開廣泛合作，任音樂季的特駐藝術家，除擔任獨奏和指揮、參加室內樂演出之外，並舉辦大師班教學。林先生熱愛當代音樂，曾與多位元 作曲家合作並為其作品作世界首演，其中包括譚盾、喬爾• 霍夫曼 (Joel Hoffman)、約翰•哈比森 (John Harbison)、克里斯多夫•勞斯 (Christopher Rouse)、埃薩 – 佩卡·薩洛寧 (Esa-PekkaSalonen)、拉羅·斯齊弗林 (Lalo Schifrin)、保羅•肖恩費德 (Paul Schoenfield)、盛宗亮、瓊•陶爾 (Joan Tower) 等風格截然不同之作曲家。身為狂熱的室內樂音樂家，林昭亮除了參加北京音樂節之外，也定期在紐約林肯中心室內樂協會音樂季、阿斯本音樂節、聖達菲室內音樂 節等演出。
自 2001 年起，林昭亮擔任拉荷亞音樂協會“仲夏音樂節”的音樂總監，從最初著重於純粹室內樂演出，發展到目前包含舞蹈、爵士和新興音樂節目等的多元化之音樂節，並 委約許多作曲家創作新曲，其中包括奇克•柯瑞亞 (Chick Corea)、斯蒂瓦特•柯佩蘭 (Stewart Copeland)、里昂•柯希納 ( Leon Kirchner)、克里斯多夫•勞斯 (Christopher Rouse)、威恩•舒特 (Wayne Shorter)、凱佳•薩利亞霍 (Kaija Saariaho) 和岡瑟•舒勒 (Gunther Schuller) 等。
林昭亮的音樂錄音全輯內容豐富，包括為索尼古典音樂、Decca、Ondine、Naxos 和 BIS 等灌制的專輯。他的專輯榮獲多個獎項，包括被《留聲機》雜誌評為“年度最佳唱片”和兩次獲格萊美獎提名。他的專輯反映出其音樂生涯涉獵之廣，從標準的莫紮 特到斯特拉文斯基的小提琴協奏曲，從勃拉姆斯到拉威爾的室內樂和從陳怡到克里斯多夫•勞斯的當代音樂。他最新發行的專輯是和世宗獨奏家室內樂團及安東尼• 紐曼 (Anthony Newman) 演奏的維瓦爾第 (Vivaldi) 的《四季》，由 Naxos 錄製的盛宗亮和金希文 (Gordon Chin) 合作的小提琴作品，以及由 Koch 錄製的喬治•瓊塔基斯 (George Tsontakis) 作曲的《第一小提琴協奏曲》。
林昭亮 1960 年生於臺灣，5 歲開始隨李淑德 (Sylvia Lee) 學習小提琴。12 歲前往悉尼進修，師從羅伯•比克勒 (Robert Pikler)。在悉尼，他受伊薩克•帕爾曼 (Itzhak Perlman) 的啟發，於 1975 年赴紐約報考茱莉亞音樂學院，跟隨帕爾曼的老師多羅西•迪蕾 (Dorothy DeLay) 女士學習六年。19 歲在紐約莫札特音樂節首次登臺，隨後與紐約愛樂樂團合作，開始其職業演奏生涯。2000 年，被《音樂美國》(Musical America) 雜誌評選為“年度器樂演奏家”。1991 年，獲邀執教茱莉亞音樂學院；最近，他被聘為萊斯大學 Shepherd 音樂學院的小提琴教授。他演奏用的琴是斯特拉迪瓦裡在 1715 年製作的“提香”。
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