RECITAL

JENNY LIN

Sunday, June 15, 3:00 p.m.
Program, Tickets

Jenny Lin is one of the most respected young pianists today, admired for her adventurous programming and charismatic stage presence. She continues to receive accolades worldwide as an orchestral soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. The New York Times writes:
“remarkable technical command" and “No one who has heard [her] will need to be told that Ms. Lin has a gift for melodic flow”, the Washington Post praises "Lin’s confident fingers... spectacular technique..." and Gramophone magazine has hailed her as "an exceptionally sensitive pianist".

Her performances have taken her to venues such as Carnegie Recital Hall, Kennedy Center, Miller Theatre, Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum in New York, as well as at Chopin, Archipel, Flanders, Divonne, Ars Musica, BAM's Next Wave and Spoleto USA Festivals, with orchestras such as Orchestra Sinfonica Nationale della RAI in Torino, SWR Rundfunkorchester, La Orquesta Sinfónica de Gijón, and the Flemish Radio Orchestra. She has worked with conductors such as Lothar Zagrosek, Jiri Starek, Urs Schneider, and Oliver Diaz. This season she will appear with the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan in Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Malaysian conductor Kek-Tjiang Lim.

She is the subject of the musical documentary, "Cooking for Jenny", by Elemental Films Spain.

Jenny records for Koch International Classics, Hänssler Classic, BIS Records, Sunrise Records, and Poem Culture Records. Her extensive discography includes critically acclaimed recordings such as music for Piano and Orchestra by Ernest Bloch with the SWR German Radio Orchestra, "Preludes to a Revolution", "The 11th Finger", "Chinoiserie", solo and chamber works by Valentin Silvestrov, complete piano music of Ruth Crawford Seeger, Liszt Sonata and Schumann Fantasie, and compositions by Chinese composers Guan Xia and Ma Yo-Dao. Two recordings are due for release in 2008-9: “American Insomniac” featuring composers William Bolcom, John Cage and Frederic Rzewski, as well as the 24 Preludes and Fugues by Dmitri Shostakovitch.

Born in Taiwan and raised in Austria, Jenny studied with Noel Flores at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna, with Julian Martin at the Peabody Conservatory (Artist Diploma) in Baltimore, and with Dominique Weber in Geneva. She has also worked with Richard Goode and Blanca Uribe in New York, and with Dimitri Bashkirov and Andreas Staier at the Fondazione Internazionale per il pianoforte in Cadenabbia, Italy. She holds a bachelor's degree in German Literature from The Johns Hopkins University and currently resides in New York City where she serves on the faculty of the 92nd Street Y.