When Chelsea Wang, 13, a seventh grader in Des Moines, Iowa, achieved second place in the Baldwin Junior High Piano at the Music Teachers National Association on March 23 during the National Conference at Toronto, it made Chiu-Ling Lin, a West Windsor resident since August, 2005, very proud. She was her teacher for six years at Drake University.##M:[more]##
“This competition begins in state level, then division with a final round of seven contestants each a winner of their division,” says Lin. “I attended the national final as one of her teachers and also received a certificate.”
Lin, who made her Carnegie Recital Hall debut as the winner of the East and West Young Artist Auditions, has soloed with 14 orchestras, including the Atlanta Symphony, the Chicago Civic Orchestra, the Singapore Symphony, and the Des Moines Symphony. Appearances in New York, Boston, Chicago, England, Canada and throughout the Far East have featured her unique mix of music by Chinese and Western composers. Her virtuosity is showcased in a new CD, “Portraits of China.”
She graduated from New England Conservatory of Music, and received her master’s and doctoral degrees from Indiana University. Her 30 years of college teaching experience include positions as chair of the music department and professor of piano at Drake University in Des Moines, Indiana, and artist-in-residence at Indiana University at South Bend.
Since her arrival in New Jersey, she has given solo recitals in Singapore and Westminster Choir College and concerts featuring Hispanic, Chinese, and left-handed repertoire. She has also appeared as concerto soloist with the Manalapan Symphony Orchestra in New Jersey and Bemidji Orchestra in Minnesota. This month she was invited to give a master class for the Piano Teachers Congress in Steinway Hall in New York City.
Lin, currently on the board of the New Jersey Music Teachers Association, is the president-elect for the state. She is also on the committee of the National Pedagogy Conference, contributes to the Keyboard Companion Magazine, and records for the FJH Publishing Company.
