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Ching-Mei Lin

​Taiwan / composer
作曲組評審|林京美

Ching-Mei Lin is a Taiwanese-born composer and pianist. In her music, she incorporates innovative and international western techniques. Lin 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, Best Composer at the 33rd Golden Melody Awards for Traditional Arts and Music in Taiwan, 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, Society of Composers Conference, the Midwest Composers Symposium, the North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conference, the Midwest Composers Symposium, the Asian Double Reed Association Conference, the ISCM-Taiwan concert series, the Asian Composers League Festival, and performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Taiwan Philharmonic, the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, the Taipei Symphony Orchestra, the YinQi Chorus and Symphony Orchestra, the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen Orchestra, the University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra, the Eastman School of Music Symphony Orchestra, National Taipei University of the Arts Symphony Orchestra, the Aspen Contemporary Music Ensemble, the Ossia New Music Ensemble, Ju Percussion Group, the ProArt Ensemble, and the Kaohsiung Chamber Chorus. She has collaborated with international acclaimed conductors including Leonard Slatkin and Shao-Chia Lü. Her works have been released by Apple iTunes Store, Blue Griffin Recording, the National Performing Arts Center, the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, TMC Culture & Arts Foundation, Müller Chamber Choir, Kaohsiung Chamber Choir, and the Springsong Organization.

Upon graduation from the National Taiwan Normal University, Lin was awarded a government scholarship to study abroad. She holds a Masters 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). Her composition teachers include William Bolcom, Bright Sheng, Evan Chambers, David Liptak, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon and Gordon Shi-Wen Chin. Lin, who is also an active pianist, organist, improviser and collaborator, is currently an associate professor of music theory and composition at Taipei National University of the Arts in Taiwan.

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