Jenny Lin, piano
Saturday, September 18, 2021 at 4:00 pm
Ticket: $50
The dynamic Jenny Lin, admired not only for her pianistic skills, but for her adventurous programming and charismatic stage presence, continues this season’s legacytheme by exploring the influence of the Romantic and Modern Masters on Baltimore-born composer Phillip Glass. As a touring collaborator with Mr. Glass, Jenny provides an insider’s perspective as she pairs Glass’s Etudes with works by Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, Liszt, Ligeti, and Schubert.
remarkable technical command. . . gift for melodic flow.
The New York Times
Lin’s playing is nothing less than superhuman
. . . spectacular technique. . . surely one of the most interesting pianists in America right now.
The Washington Post
an exceptionally sensitive. . . . gifted and imaginative artist.
Gramophone Magazine
Jenny Lin
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... “, “...surely one of the most interesting pianists in America right now...” and Gramophone Magazine has hailed her as “an exceptionally sensitive pianist”.
Jenny’s orchestral engagements have included Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy with Collegiate Chorale and American Symphony, Valentin Silvestrov’s Metamusik with 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; world premiere of Stefano Gervasoni’s Piano Concerto with Orchestra Sinfonica Nationale della RAI, and Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan. She has also worked with NDR Radiophilharmonie, Flemish Radio Orchestra, Nürnberger Symphoniker, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, and performed with conductors such as Lothar Zagrosek, James Bagwell, Jiri Starek, Urs Schneider, Alexander Mickelthwate, Peter Bay, Jac van Steen, Ovidiu Balan, Wen-Pin Chien, Kek-Tjiang Lim, John Kennedy, Carlos Amat, Oliver Diaz, and Celso Antunes.
Her concerts have taken her to Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center’s Great Performers, Kennedy Center, Miller Theatre, MoMA, Whitney Museum, San Francisco Performances, SF Jazz, Freer Gallery of Art, Morgan Library, Stanford LIVE, (Le) Poisson Rouge, National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery, Spivey Hall, throughout Europe and the Far East; as well as Festivals worldwide at Mostly Mozart, BAM’s Next Wave, Spoleto and Portland International Piano Festivals in the USA, Chopin Festival in Austria, Flanders and Ars Musica Festivals in Belgium, Shanghai New Music Festival in China, Divonne Festival in France, Schleswig-Holstein, Potsdam and Husum Piano Rarities Festivals in Germany, Kings Place in London, Millennium Festival in Spain, Festival Archipel in Switzerland, and Winnipeg New Music in Canada. Since 2014, she has joined Philip Glass in his ongoing world tour of his complete Piano Etudes.
Jenny’s extensive discography includes critically acclaimed recordings on Steinway & Sons, hänssler CLASSIC, eOne Records, BIS Records, Albany Records, and Sunrise Records. Since 2000, she has over thirty albums to her credit. The New York Times called her disc of Federico Mompou’s Musica Callada “...beautifully recorded...”. Classicstoday praised her 24 Preludes and Fugues Op. 87 by Dmitri Shostakovitch “...hands down the finest version of this massive work” and was voted Best of 2009 by the Washington Post, All-Music Guide raved: “The 11th Finger is a thrill ride for musical adventurers” and “Lin’s playing is nothing less than superhuman”, and Gramophone reported on her CD of Stravinsky’s solo piano music “superbly recorded... another notable achievement from this gifted and imaginative artist.” Other notable recordings have included Liszt Sonata and Schumann Fantasie, music for Piano and Orchestra by Ernest Bloch and Xavier Montsalvatge, “Get Happy” – Broadway song arrangements by pianists such as Stephen Hough, Marc-Andre Hamelin, Chistopher O’Riley, Stephen Prutsman, and the complete Piano Etudes of Philip Glass. Upcoming releases include the complete Nocturnes of Chopin and piano music of Artur Schnabel.
A passionate advocate for education, Jenny created “Melody’s Mostly Musical Day“, a musical picture book for children following the adventures of an imaginative little girl from breakfast to bedtime, told in a collection of 26 classical piano works from Mozart to Gershwin. A multimedia concert version has since been developed for her tours at schools and educational institutions throughout the USA and Canada.Jenny is the central figure 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. Other media appearances include CBS Sunday Morning, NPR Performance Today, and “Speaking for Myself”, a film about Manhattan as seen through the eyes of eight contemporary artists by filmmaker Bert Shapiro.
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 and currently resides in New York City.
Jenny Lin is a Steinway Artist.
