Cho-Liang Lin is a Taiwanese violinist known for what 'Gramophone Magazine' called "dazzling technique and flawless intonation." He has won great acclaim internationally for his performances and recordings, his albums of concertos by Mendelssohn, Saint-Saëns and Bruch receiving high praise. He plays recitals, with orchestras and in chamber music settings and has appeared as a soloist with the symphony orchestras of cities such as Dallas, Los Angeles, Houston and Toronto as well as the Bergen Philharmonic, the English Chamber Orchestra, the New Zealand Symphony, the Stockholm Philharmonic and the Singapore Symphony.
Born in Taiwan, he took violin lessons locally from the age of five and went on to study in Australia and in New York, where he was taught at the Juilliard School by the late Dorothy DeLay. He made his debut at the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York when he was 19 and after a performance with the New York Philharmonic, he became an established soloist. His debut album, 'Concertos for Violin' in 1984 featured Mendelssohn and Saint-Saëns and he has released albums almost every year since then. He was nominated for Grammy Awards for Best Chamber Music Performance for 'Brahms: Sextets, Op. 18 and 36/Theme and Variations' in 1992 and for 'Schubert/Boccherini: Quintets (Schubert: Quintet In C Major/Boccherini: Quintet in E Major)' in 1997. His latest album was 'Xiaogang Ye: Symphony No. 3 'Chu'; The Last Paradise' in 2016.
He teaches at Juilliard and performs regularly with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York. He has presented premieres by composers including Bright Sheng, John Harbison, Joel Hoffman, Christopher Rouse, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Paul Schoenfield and Joan Tower, and he debuted iconic Hollywood film composer Lalo Schifrin's 'Tangos Concertantes' in America and Europe. He plays at the Beijing Music Festival and Carnegie Hall's China Festival and he is music director of La Jolla Music Society's SummerFest. His 2017 schedule included performances in Hong Kong, Beijing and Dallas and continued with two performances of Beethoven's sonatas for piano and violin with Jon Kimura Parker in Texas and performances of Bach's 'Brandenburg' concertos in Georgia and New York.
