Jasmine Lin, Violin

Biography

Jasmine Lin has appeared as soloist with such orchestras as the Chicago Symphony, Illinois Philharmonic, Singapore Symphony, the Symphony Orchestras of Brazil and of Uruguay, the Evergreen Symphony of Taiwan, and the National Symphony of Taiwan, and in recital in Chicago, New York, Nova Scotia, Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, and Taipei. She was a prizewinner in the International Paganini Competition and took second prize in the International Naumburg Competition. The New York Times describes her as an “unusually individualistic player” with “electrifying assertiveness” and “virtuosic abandon”.

As a chamber musician, Ms. Lin has been a participant of the Marlboro Music Festival and the Ravinia Festival’s Steans Music Institute, and has toured extensively in the U.S. as part of the Chicago String Quartet, in China as part of the Overseas Musicians, and in Taiwan. She has been adjunct faculty at Northwestern and DePaul Universities, and currently serves on the faculty at Roosevelt University.

Ms. Lin is a founding and current member of the Formosa Quartet, which won first prize in the 10th London International String Quartet Competition; a member of Trio Voce with cellist Marina Hoover and pianist Patricia Tao; and a member of the Chicago Chamber Musicians.

Ms. Lin is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music. She gave her New York debut in Merkin Hall, in a program including her poetry set to music. Her poem “The night of h’s” received Editor’s Choice Award from the International Poetry Foundation, and her poetry/music presentations have been featured in Chicago, Cornell University, and on radio in Taipei.  They have resulted in collaborations with composers Dana Wilson, David Loeb, and Thomas Oboe Lee.