Komponisten
Ching-Mei LIN 林京美
Produkteinführung
Komponistin, Taipei National University of the Arts
Produkteinführung
Englisch
Ching-Mei LIN is a Taiwanese-born composer and pianist. In her music, Lin incorporates innovative and international techniques that combine local dissonances with large-scale consonant structures, and pentatonic modality within a chromatic pitch language. She has composed for soloists and ensembles in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. She has won numerous international awards, including first place for both the NACUSA Young Composers Competition and the New Music on the Block, an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, and the Sun River Prize in China. Her works have been performed at the Aspen Music Festival, the Bowdoin International Music Festival, the Earshot New Music Reading, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Young Composers Forum, the NACUSA National Conference, the North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conference, the Midwest Composers Symposium, the Asian Double Reed Association Conference, and the ISCM—Taiwan concert series, and performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Taipei Symphony Orchestra, the Taiwan Philharmonic, the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, the YinQi Chorus and Symphony Orchestra, and the Ju Percussion Group, among others. She has collaborated with internationally acclaimed conductors including Leonard Slatkin and Shao-Chia Lü. Her works are released by Apple iTunes Store, Blue Griffin Recording, and the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra.
Upon graduating from the National Taiwan Normal University, Ms. Lin was awarded a government scholarship to study abroad. She holds a Master of Music degree in composition from the Eastman School of Music (Rochester, NY) and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). Lin, who is also an active pianist, organist, improviser, and collaborator, currently is an associate professor of music theory and composition at the Taipei National University of the Arts in Taiwan, and adjunct associate professor at the National Taiwan Normal University.