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September 02, 2006
Cho-Liang Lin, SummerFest Music Director, La Jolla Music Society, 8-4-06
As one of Southern California’s leading presenters of world-class performing arts, La Jolla Music Society contributes to San Diego’s cultural vitality year-round through a rich variety of concert series such as Celebrity Orchestra Series, Celebrity Recital Series, Jazz Series, Revelle Chamber Music Series, Discovery Series and North County Series. The Society’s signature event each year is the acclaimed La Jolla SummerFest, a three-week chamber music festival of performances, live broadcasts, open rehearsals, educational encounters, pre-concert talks, and social events. All of the Society’s activities are supported by extensive education and outreach programs, such as artist residencies and music instruction at the Community Music Center, which are designed to enlighten adult and young audiences, as well as aspiring and emerging artists.
Taiwanese-American violinist Cho-Liang Lin, Artistic Director of La Jolla Music Society SummerFest, is lauded the world over for the eloquence of his playing and for the superb musicianship that marks his performances. Renowned for appearances as a soloist with major orchestras, he is also frequently heard in recital and in chamber music. Musical America named Mr. Lin its Instrumentalist of the Year in 2000.
As Artistic Director of La Jolla SummerFest, the Los Angeles Times stated that Mr. Lin “has put together another bracing and provocative series.” An advocate of contemporary composers, Mr. Lin has invited prominent composers to this festival while actively seeking and promoting commissions from these composers. As a solo artist, he has premiered works by Tan Dun, Joel Hoffman, Christopher Rouse, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Elie Siegmeister, Bright Sheng, George Tsontakis, George Walker and Chen Yi. In San Diego and Taipei, he has presented the world premieres of two concertos by the Taiwanese composer Gordon Chin.
Cho-Liang Lin has recorded for Sony Classical, Decca, Ondine and BIS. Some of his albums have won such awards as Gramophone’s Record of the Year, as well as two Grammy Award nominations. On Sony Classical, his discography includes standard violin repertoire such as concerti ranging from Mozart to Stravinsky as well as chamber music of Brahms, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Debussy and Ravel. For Decca, he recorded the Concerto for Violin and Guitar by Aaron Jay Kernis with Sharon Isbin, conductor HughWolff and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. For BIS, he recorded Chen Yi’s concerto Folk Dance Suite. His recording of the concerto by Christopher Rouse on Ondine was recently named one of the best classical releases of 2004 by The New York Times.
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