CHO-LIANG LIN Cho-Liang Lin is a violinist whose career has spanned the globe for 30 years. He was born in Taiwan in 1960 and began playing the violin at the age of five. He went on to study in Sydney and New York City where he was a student of Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School. Since his début at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival at the age of nineteen, he has appeared with virtually every major orchestra in the world, including the Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra and New York Philharmonic.
He has over twenty recordings to his credit, ranging from the concertos of Mozart, Mendelssohn, Sibelius, and Prokofiev, to Christopher Rouse and Tan Dun, as well as the chamber music of Schubert, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Ravel. His recording partners include Yefim Bronfman, Yo-Yo Ma, Wynton Marsalis, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Leonard Slatkin, Michael Tilson Thomas and Isaac Stern.
His recordings have been critically acclaimed, winning several GRAMMY® nominations and Gramophone’s Record of the Year award. He has been a member of the Juilliard School faculty since 1991 and he was appointed professor at Rice University. He is also the music director of La Jolla SummerFest in California. For this recording, he uses his 1715 Antonio Stradivari “Titian” and a bow by Etienne Pajeot.
His website is www.linviolin.com.
| CHEN: Momentum / Chinese Folk Dance Suite |
BIS BIS-CD-1352 |
Orchestral, Chamber Music
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| CHIN, Gordon Shi-Wen: Double Concerto / Formosa Seasons |
Naxos 8.570221 |
Concertos, Orchestral
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| GERBER, S.: Chamber Music - Piano Trio / Duo / Elegy / Notturno / Gershwiniana (Nikkanen, Cho-Liang Lin, Beroukhim, B. Smith, Buechner) |
Naxos 8.559618 |
Chamber Music, Instrumental
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| ROUSE, C.: Gerettete Alberich (Der) / Rapture / Violin Concerto (Lin, Glennie, Helsinki Philharmonic, Segerstam) |
Ondine ODE1016-2 |
Concertos, Orchestral
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| SHENG, Bright: Spring Dreams / 3 Fantasies / Tibetan Dance (Cho-liang Lin, Singapore Chinese Orchestra, Tsung Yeh, A.-M. Schub, E. Svoboda, B. Sheng) |
Naxos 8.570601 |
Concertos, Chamber Music
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| TAN, Dun: Out of Peking Opera / Death and Fire / Orchestral Theatre II |
Ondine ODE864-2 |
Concertos, Orchestral
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| TINTNER: Violin Sonata / Variations on a Theme of Chopin / Piano Sonata / Trauermusik |
Naxos 8.570258 |
Instrumental
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| VIVALDI, A.: 4 Seasons (The) / Violin Concertos, Op. 8, Nos. 5-6 (Cho-Liang Lin, Sejong, Newman) (Blu-Ray Audio) |
Naxos NBD0016 |
Concertos
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| VIVALDI: 4 Seasons (The) / Violin Concertos, Op. 8, Nos. 5-6 |
Naxos 8.557920 |
Concertos
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| ZHOU, Long: Spirit of Chimes / Secluded Orchid / Wu Kui / Taiping Drum / Partita (Cho-Liang Lin, Hai-ye Ni, Helen Huang) |
Delos DE3397 |
Chamber Music, Instrumental |
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