Featured Artists of the
Chamber Music Society
of Fort Worth

Gloria Lin
Piano

Pianist GLORIA LIN appears around the world in such prestigious venues as Alice Tully Hall and the United Nations in New York; Washington DC; the Ford Center in Toronto, Canada; and in France; Japan, Spain; Venezuela; and her native Taiwan. Highlights include performances at Chamber Music America’s 25th Anniversary Marathon Concert at Symphony Space, and the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York; SummerFest La Jolla, California; the International Music Festival in Morelia, Mexico; the Carlos Chavez Hall in Mexico City; the Sociedad Filarmonica series in Lima, Peru, the Cliburn at the Modern series, the Fort Worth Chamber Music Society, and the TCU Faculty & Friends Chamber Music Series in Fort Worth, Texas. Her performances have been broadcast on prominent national and international media, such as NPR’s Performance Today, WNYC’s Soundcheck, and Japanese public television NHK.

An active chamber musician, Gloria Lin is a founding member of the Lin / Castro-Balbi duo with cellist Jesús Castro-Balbi, ensemble which released Rapsodia Latina, an album including seven world premiere recordings of works with a Latin American flavor (available at www.filarmonika.com).

Among numerous awards, Gloria Lin is the winner of the Dora Zaslavsky Koch Piano Competition, the Chopin Council of Greater New York Competition, and was awarded the Grand Prize at the Young Keyboard Artist Association International Competition as well as the First Prize at the National Youth Piano Competition in Taiwan. She received the Outstanding Achievement Award at the University of Michigan, and the United States Presidential Award at the Interlochen Arts Academy.

Dr. Lin was educated at The Juilliard School, the Interlochen Arts Academy, the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, the Manhattan School of Music, and earned her Doctor of Music degree at Indiana University-Bloomington. Her mentors include Martin Canin, Isidore Cohen, Rostislav Dubinsky, Joseph Kalischtein, Nina Lelchuk, Solomon Mikowsky, Aldo Parisot, György Sebök, and Fred Sherry.

A dedicated pedagogue, Dr. Lin currently serves on the piano and musicology faculty at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth and maintains an active private studio. During the summer, she teaches at Conservatory Music in the Mountains in Durango, Colorado.

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