Richard Lin
violin
Taiwanese-American violinist Richard Lin is the newly crowned Gold Medalist of the 10th Quadrennial International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, which took place in September of 2018.
Highlights of Mr. Lin’s 2019/2020 season include concerto engagements with the Indianapolis, Montclair, and Chippewa Valley Symphonies as well as the New Mexico, Evansville, and Marion Philharmonics in the United States. Multiple recitals in Dallas, New York, Washington, D.C., and Poland will culminate in a Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium recital debut in June 2020. In Asia, Richard will tour Vietnam with the Evergreen Symphony Orchestra. He will also perform the Beethoven Triple Concerto with the National Symphony Orchestra in Taipei and the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra in Japan.
Richard has collaborated with numerous orchestras and performed at celebrated concert venues throughout the world including the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra under conductor Norichika Iimori at Tokyo’s Suntory Hall. Other orchestras with whom he has worked include the NDR Radiophilharmonie; the North Carolina, Shanghai, and Singapore Symphonies; Poznań, Łódź, Polish Baltic, Nagoya, Taiwan, and Oklahoma City Philharmonics; the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Amadeus Polish Chamber Orchestra, and the Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia among others.
He released his first album on the Fontec label in 2013 featuring works for violin and orchestra by Beethoven, Bartók, and Brahms performed with the Sendai Philharmonic and conductor Pascal Verrot. The following year, he released the complete Brahms Sonatas for Piano and Violin with his brother, pianist Robert Lin.
Richard has amassed a startling collection of top prizes at major international competitions, including 1st Prize at the Sendai International Violin Competition, 3rd Prize in the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition in Hannover, and 2nd Prize at the Singapore and Michael Hill International Violin competitions.
Born in Phoenix, Arizona, and raised in Taiwan, Richard began his violin studies at the age of four. He gave his public debut at age 11, performing the Saint-Saëns Violin Concerto No. 3 with the Taipei Symphony Orchestra. Richard graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School where he studied with Aaron Rosand and Lewis Kaplan respectively.
