Yi-Hsin Lin (林宜欣)
Identity Snapshot
- English: Yi-Hsin Lin
- Chinese: 林宜欣
- Era: Contemporary
- Geography: Taiwan
- Core roles: professor, educator
- Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
Beginning violin studies in her native Taiwan at the age of ten, violinist Dr. Yi-Hsin Lin 林宜欣 quickly achieved success when she won Second Prize in the Northern Taipei Teen Violin Competition. A seasoned performer, Dr. Lin recently presented her Carnegie Hall debut in New York at Weill Recital Hall. Of the performance, the New York Concert Review admired how Dr. Lin “projected her sound with solidity, warmth and elegance.”
Education
- Soochow University — B.M. — Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University — M.M. — University of Maryland, College Park — D.M.A.
Employment
- Soochow University Orchestra — Principal — University of Maryland Symphony — Principal — Maryland Sinfonietta — Principal — National Christian Choir Orchestra — Associate Concertmaster — Music Institute of Howard Community College — Faculty — Summerkeys Music Festival — Faculty — Community — D.C. Youth Orchestra — Juror
Timeline
- Began violin studies in native Taiwan at age ten; won Second Prize in the Northern Taipei Teen Violin Competition
- B.M., Soochow University — later Principal, Soochow University Orchestra
- M.M., Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University
- D.M.A., University of Maryland, College Park
- Principal chairs — University of Maryland Symphony; Maryland Sinfonietta
- Associate Concertmaster, National Christian Choir Orchestra
- Faculty — Music Institute of Howard Community College; Summerkeys Music Festival
- Juror, D.C. Youth Orchestra competitions
- Carnegie Hall debut at Weill Recital Hall, New York — praised by the New York Concert Review for projecting her sound “with solidity, warmth and elegance”
Source: on-page TAH profile (TAH #402, 06/2017).
Family
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Sources
Related Pages
Vault records (deepen pass 2026-09-10)
- Encyclopedia record in vault: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/yi-hsin-lin-violinist||TAH #402 Yi-Hsin Lin 林宜欣, Violinist]] (06/2017) — vault copy of the source behind the Carnegie Hall debut and chair history above.
- Mid-Atlantic community cluster for her on-page D.C./Maryland activity (no documented membership): |Taiwanese American Association of Baltimore, |Taiwanese American Cultural Society of the Capital District.
Community clusters on her degree cities (deepen pass 2026-09-14, no documented membership)
- Baltimore (M.M., Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University): johns-hopkins-university-taiwanese-student-association, taiwanese-american-students-association-at-johns-hopkins-university
- College Park (D.M.A.; principal chairs in the University of Maryland Symphony): university-of-maryland-taiwanese-student-association, taiwanese-american-student-association-at-the-university-of-maryland-college-park
- D.C. youth-arts scene peer organization to her documented D.C. Youth Orchestra jury work: taiwanese-youth-arts-foundation-washington-dc
Corpus recheck (slice 09150316-21, 2026-09-15)
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