Yea-Shiuh Lin

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Yea-Shiuh Lin, a pianist, who started her first piano lesson when she was six. At age of thirteen, Ms. Lin gave her piano solo debut in Taipei, and also was invited to perform at the Jen-Shen Public Broadcasting Radio Station. After finished her early years of musical training in Taiwan, Yea-Shiuh Lin went to the Cleveland Institute of Music in the United States for pursuing her Master degree in piano performance. At that time, she achieved further improvement both in solo piano and chamber music performance areas as well, under studying with duo-pianists Thomas Hecht and Sandra Shapiro, Anne Epperson, and Weilerstein Duo.
Major honor was awarded in 1994 by the Piano Department of Cleveland Institute of Music: the annual “Sadie Zellen Piano Prize for Outstanding Musical Development.” At the same year, Yea-Shiuh Lin began her Doctoral program in the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music with full scholarship, and studied with professor Frank Weinstock and Sandra Rivers.
Numerous masterclasses Ms. Lin performed during her advanced musical study in the United States, including masterclasses of Jerome Lowenthal, Mack McCray, and Luba Edlina, etc. As a polished collaborative pianist, she was invited to play for vocal masterclasses of Soprano Ally Amily, Vocal coaching Warren Jones, and also was selected as a private studio accompanist by the renowned violin teacher Dorothy Delay and Cellist Yehuda Hanani.
During her American years from 1991-1998, Yea-Shiuh Lin was active as a piano soloist and a chamber musician. The important performances were including the Cleveland Orchestra Benefit Concert Series, Cincinnati Contemporary Music Festival, and Bachnallia Music Festival with Cellist Yehuda Hanani, Leslie Parnas, and Shumel Magan.
In December 1998, Ms. Lin returned to Taiwan with her Doctor of Musical Arts degree, and since then she started her musical career as a solo pianist, a professional collaborative pianist, and a full-time piano professor in the Music Department of Sun Yat-sen University. Major appearances in recent years include concerto appearances with Music Department of Sun Yat-sen University Orchestra in 2002 and 2017, “Piano Solo Recital Series in Taipei National Recital Hall, 2000-2018”, “ Two Pianos Recital with Yueh-Reng Lin, 2006-2017”. Invited by Hotshot Chamber Music Series to appear with Cellist Min-Yuan Lin and Violinist Vicki Hsu in concert tours of Taipei, Kaohsiung, and Tokyo in 2018-2019. Ms. Lin was selected to be listed in Asia Pacific Who’s Who, Volume XVI, 2017.