Christiana Lin
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Christiana Lin 林秋孜 | |
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Born | educator, harpsichordist |
Instrument(s) | Piano |
Website | www |
Christiana Lin (born in
Lin is piano and harpsichord professor at the colleges and graduate schools of
Career
Lin was the first musician ever to play both harpsichord and piano in one recital.[citation needed] In the past many years, she has been invited to perform around Europe and Asia, such as Vienna, Innsbruck, Munich, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. In 1989, she was invited by the Vienna Arts Festival to give a piano recital at the Urania concert hall. She also gave many piano and harpsichord recitals at the Innsbruck Konservatorium Saal. In 1991, she worked with the conductor Edgar Seipenbush and the Innsbruck Symphoniker, performing Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor Op. 54. Conductors she has collaborated with in concerts include Edgar Seipenbush, Mark Graveson, Henry Mazer, Jaime Laredo, Nien-Fu David Liao, Wen-Hsien Chang, and Cheng-Tu Su. Orchestras and musical groups she performed with include the Innsbruck Symphoniker, Innsbruck Chamber Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra (Taiwan), Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Taipei Sinfonietta & Philharmonic Orchestra, Taipei Chamber Orchestra, Pace Symphony Orchestra, Hua-Gang Symphony Orchestra, and Da-Guan Symphony Orchestra.
In 1995,
In 2011, she held a concert titled "From Vienna to Beijing – the Conversation between Piano and Guqin" in the Multi-Function Hall of Peking University Centennial Memorial Hall, which was a concert blending Oriental and western artistries.
Lin initiated an international concert tour starting in 2013: "Echo aus Wien", piano duo at the
Education and playing style
"Music is a language that can only rise from harmonized spirituality, passing from one generation to the next, and the most beautiful among all languages created by the humankind." —— Christiana Lin
In addition to performing, Lin founded Cantabile Piano Music Group in 1994, in the spirit of "I play, we play". As the artistic director, she has held three Christiana Lin's Piano Education Seminar and Master Classes and 17 Cantabile Piano Master Class Concerts in order to create a stage for aspiring young artists to present their talent. Among all the master class concerts, the eleventh was 2008 Cantabile Piano German Master Class in that she took the role of artistic director. She invited Chancellor of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, pianist and Prof. Dr. Siegfried Mauser, French-German pianist Prof. Claude-France Journès, and vocalist Prof. Ingrid Kremling to teach master classes in Taipei.
Writings
In 2001, specifically for writing the book J.S. Bach Sechs Partiten BWV 825–830 Analysis und Interpretation, Lin went to do research at the Bach-Archiv in Leipzig. This is the first book on the subject written in Chinese.
In 2003, she compiled her past speeches and her personal teaching experiences and had them published in three books: The Glory of Baroque Keyboard Music, Enlightenment in Your Capacity for Understanding Music, and Understanding the Humanism in Music.
References
- ^ "Christiana Lin". Steinway & Sons. Retrieved February 18, 2015.