Joseph Lin 林以信, Violinist

Joseph Lin is an American violinist. In 2011, he joined the faculty of the Juilliard School and became the first violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet.

Lin was born in the United States in 1978 to immigrant parents from Taiwan. He attended the Juilliard School pre-college division and later graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 2000.

He has performed with many orchestras, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the New Japan Philharmonic. As a chamber musician, he appears regularly at several festivals, including Ravinia and the Marlboro Music Festival. He was an assistant professor of violin at Cornell University from 2007 to 2011. In 2011 he was appointed first violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet.

In 1996, he won first prize at the Concert Artists Guild International Competition and was named a Presidential Scholar. In 1999, he was the youngest musician to receive the Pro Musicis International award.^[2] In 2006, the Formosa Quartet, of which he was a founding member, won first prize in the London International String Quartet Competition.

 林以信是一位台裔美籍小提琴家。他於2011年成為紐約茱莉亞學院的教師並擔任茱莉亞弦樂四重奏的首席小提琴手。

林以信1978年生於台灣裔美國家庭。他考入了茱莉亞學院的預科並於2000年以優異的成績畢業於哈佛大學。

林以信與眾多樂團共同演出，其中包括波士頓交響樂團和新日本愛樂樂團。作為一位室內樂音樂家，他經常出現在拉維尼亞音樂節和萬寶路音樂節上。林以信在2007至2011年間曾任康奈爾大學的小提琴教授助理。此後2011年他受委派成為茱莉亞弦樂四重奏的首席小提琴手。

1996年他在音樂會藝術家協會舉辦的國際大賽中獲得了頭等獎並授予了校長獎學金。1999年他成為樂府國際音樂大獎最年輕的獲獎者。2006年由林以信創建的福爾摩沙四重奏獲得倫敦國際弦樂四重奏比賽的頭等獎。