Jenny Lin

Jenny Lin is one particular adventurous pianists unafraid to deal with contemporary repertory or even to explore the functions of lesser-known composers of generations history. Ironically, her repertory is normally inclusive of lots of the criteria, including concertos by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, among others. But the set of contemporary and modern composers in her repertory is normally staggering: Bolcom, Boulez, Cage, Harrison, Ligeti, Ornstein, Pärt, Rzewski, and Ustvolskaya, to mention but several. Furthermore surprising may be the number of functions she’s performed, if not really championed by digital unknowns. Just how many pianists would dare to frequently give concerts offering works by famous brands Virko Baley, Unsuk Chin, Tsu-Ling Sarana Chou, Boudewijn Cox, Elena Firsova, Vitezslava Kaprálová, Randy Nordschow, Johannes Maria Staud, and Jacqueline Waeber-Diaz? Lin not merely concertizes such fare, but provides recorded many discs of functions by such composers. And, her admirers will assert, she’s achieved a wholesome measure of achievement along the way. Indeed, she proceeds to seem at main concert venues, continues to be serving over the faculty on the 92nd Road Y, and provides produced recordings for Hänssler Classics, BIS, and Koch International. Jenny Lin was created in Taiwan in 1973 and elevated in Austria. She examined music at Vienna’s Hochschule für Musik with Noel Flores and down the road on the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore with Julian Martin. Lin continuing studies also after introducing her concert profession, her set of instructors including Richard Goode, Dmitri Bashkirov, and Andreas Staier. After her pupil years Lin relocated to NEW YORK, where she frequently shows up in concert at 92nd Road Y, Miller Movie theater, and Museum of Contemporary Art. She’s also performed at Carnegie Hall as well as the Kennedy Middle for Performing Arts. Lin in addition has made frequent performances at main American and Western european festivals, like the Spoleto, Chopin, Ars Musica, and Archipel. Lin’s first recordings appeared throughout the convert of the brand new hundred years with a set of acclaimed initiatives: Chinoiserie, a BIS Compact disc released in 2000 filled with Sino-inspired functions by Adams, Arensky, Busoni, among others, and the entire piano functions of Ruth Crawford Seeger, released in 2002, also on BIS. Among her recordings is normally a 2008 Compact disc on Hänssler Classics filled with Bloch’s Concerto symphonique, Concerto Grosso No. 1, and Scherzo fantasque, with conductor Jiri Starek leading the SWR Radio Orchestra Kaiserlautern; InsomniMania in the same calendar year; and a disk of Mompou functions (2011). In 2011, she performed on NPR’s Tiny Table Concert and continuing touring all over the world. Lin was among the 1st Steinway performers to record documents on its Spirio participant piano in 2015, using the device for a cooperation with Uri Caine entitled The Spirio Classes.