Andy Lin

Wei-Yang Andy Lin ／林維洋 –

Mr. Lin was born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and currently received the BFA Degree from the Juilliard School. He started his piano and violin lessons at the age of six. And at age ten, he started his viola and Erh-Hu lessons. He came to U.S. in 1997 to attend Idyllwild Arts Academy to study with Donald McInnes. He has won numerous competitions including Tainan County and City competitions, Kaohsiung City Gun-Du-Bae Competition, Taiwanese National Viola Competition, and the Idyllwild Concerto Competition. Mr. Lin has been a member of the LDX String Quartet, appearing on NPR’s “From the Top” radio broadcast; Kafka Piano Quintet, appearing at New York’s Taiwan Center and New Tang Television; and the Rimbaud String Quartet, with whom he was awarded a fellowship to attend the Aspen Music Festival. Mr. Lin has served as a principle violist in the Idyllwild Arts Chamber Orchestra, Ureuk Symphony, and the Bethany Church Chamber Orchestra. He has also had the privilege to perform for the President of the United States, Bill Clinton and the President of Taiwan, Ten-Hui Lee. In past years, He also has performed in Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Juilliard Paul Hall and Morse Hall, Juilliard Theater, Merkin Hall, Kennedy Center in Washington D. C., Whitaker Center in Pennsylvania, CUNY Graduate Center, Greenfield Hall in Manhattan, Mannes Concert Hall, Los Angeles Music Center, New York Taiwan Center, Queens College Concert Hall, etc. He has been a part of several Music Festivals, which includes Bowdoin Summer Festival, Aspen Summer Music Festival and Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. Throughout his musical study, he has studied chamber music with Earl Carlyss, Warren Jones, Cathleen Winkler, Timothy Eddy, Jerome Lowenthal, Joel Sachs, Arnold Steinhardt, Andre Emelianoff, and Seymour Lipkin, and has studied solo with Donald McInnes, Roger Myers, Victoria Chang, John Graham, Michael Tree, and currently with Toby Appel at the Juilliard School. As an Erh-Hu player, Mr. Lin has won the Tainan County Competition and the Taiwanese National Competition. During his studies in the States, he has been invited to play Erh-Hu for numerous occasions, including performance at the New York Taiwan Center, Chinese Cultural and Arts Institute (CCAI)’s “Spring Celebration” in Harrisburg, Passport to Taiwan in NY, HACC International Globe Festival, Juilliard International Festival, and others. He is currently teaching Erh-Hu at the CCAI. And in this fall, he will continue to study the music for his the master program at the Juilliard School.