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Jenny Lin
piano

Jenny Lin is one of the most respected young pianists today, admired for her adventurous programming and charismatic stage presence. Her ability to combine classical and contemporary literature has brought her to the attention of international critics and audiences. She has been acclaimed for her “remarkable technical command” and “a gift for melodic flow” by The New York Times. The Washington Post praises “Lin’s confident fingers... spectacular technique...” and Gramophone Magazine has hailed her as “an exceptionally sensitive pianist”. Martha Argerich wrote: “Miss Jenny Lin is a very gifted young musician and a brilliant pianist.”

Jenny’s recent orchestral engagements have included Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy with the Collegiate Chorale and American Symphony, Valentin Silvestrov’s Metamusik with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Manuel de Falla’s Nights in the Garden of Spain with La Orquesta Sinfónica de Gijón; Ernest Bloch’s Concerto Grosso No. 1 with SWR Rundfunkorchester; the world premiere of Stefano Gervasoni’s Piano Concerto with Orchestra Sinfonica Nationale della RAI, and Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan. She has also appeared with the Flemish Radio Orchestra, Nürnberger Symphoniker, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, and Orquesta de Valencia.

Her concerts have taken her to Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, the Kennedy Center, Miller Theatre, MoMA, the Whitney Museum, (Le) Poisson Rouge, the National Gallery of Art, the Corcoran Gallery, Spivey Hall, Salle Cortot and Victoria Hall; and Festivals worldwide including the Chopin Festival in Austria, the Flanders and Ars Musica Festivals in Belgium, Shanghai New Music Festival in China, Divonne Festival in France, the Potsdam and Husum Festivals in Germany, the Millennium Festival in Spain, Festival Archipel in Switzerland, Winnipeg New Music in Canada, BAM’s Next Wave, MATA, Spoleto and Portland International Piano Festivals in the USA. Upcoming performances include Mostly Mozart at Lincoln Center, San Francisco Performances, the Freer Gallery of Art, and Strathmore.

Jenny’s extensive discography includes critically acclaimed recordings on Hänssler Classic, Koch/E1, BIS Records, and Sunrise Records. Classics today praised her latest album of the 24 Preludes and Fugues Op. 87 by Dmitri Shostakovitch as “…hands down the finest version of this massive work” and was voted Best of 2009 by the Washington Post. The New York Times called her Preludes to a Revolution (Russian Piano Preludes) “…a darn good listen”. All-Music Guide raved: “The 11th Finger (Ligeti, Tenney, Vivier) is a thrill ride for musical adventurers” and “Lin’s playing is nothing less than superhuman”. Gramophone found her album of piano works by Valentin Silvestrov a “beautifully arranged programme...Lin is an ideal exponent of music whose superfine dynamic and textural contrasts create their own expressive intensity”. Other notable releases have included InsomniMania, music for Piano and Orchestra by Ernest Bloch, the Ma Shui-Long Piano Concerto, and Chinoiserie. Upcoming releases include Federico Mompou’s Musica Callada on the new Steinway & Sons record label and Xavier Montsalvatge’s Concerto Breve with NDR Radiophilharmonie.

Jenny is featured in Cooking for Jenny by Elemental Films, a musical documentary portraying her journey to the north of Spain and meeting with composer Javier López de Guereña for the preparation of the world premier of his piano concerto ZAHARA.

Born in Taiwan and raised in Austria, Jenny studied with Noel Flores at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna, with Julian Martin at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, and with Dominique Weber in Geneva. She has also worked with Leon Fleisher, Richard Goode, and Blanca Uribe, and with Dimitri Bashkirov and Andreas Staier at the Fondazione Internazionale per il pianoforte in Como, Italy. She holds a bachelor’s degree in German Literature from The Johns Hopkins University. She lives in New York City where she also teaches at the 92nd Street Y.

—March 2011

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