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Joanne Lin, Cellist Joanne Lin, cellist, is an enthusiastic explorer of chamber music. A New York resident since 1998, Joanne travels back to her native Bay Area in order to perform with NCCO. "NCCO is truly a great experience for me, rehearsal-wise and performance-wise, and I'm honored to be a part of it." In New York, Joanne plays with Transfiguration Ensemble, a mixed chamber music group, and Momenta Quartet (www.momentaquartet.com), who recently gave a League of Composers/ISCM-sponsored concert in the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Hall at Symphony Space. Momenta formed last summer to serve as the ensemble-in-residence for the composition department at Temple University in Philadelphia, focusing on contemporary and 20th-century repertoire. While all the members of the quartet attended The Juilliard School at some point, three-quarters of the group met formally through a contemporary music ensemble that she co-founded about five years ago called the Argento Chamber Ensemble. A CD of Tristan Murail's music recorded in Istanbul will soon be released on the European Aeon label. As a chamber musician, Ms. Lin has attended such festivals as Bowdoin, Musicorda, Yellow Barn, and Norfolk, studying with artists Syoko Aki, Bonnie Hampton, James Buswell, William Purvis, Andre Emelianoff, and members of the Cassatt, Tokyo, and Vermeer String Quartets, among others. In New York, as a masters student at The Juilliard School, Ms. Lin studied chamber music with Jacob Lateiner, Seymour Lipkin, Toby Appel, Jerry Grossman, and Joel Smirnoff. Her piano trio was featured in an Alice Tully Hall chamber music series concert with the Brahms B Major Piano Trio, and her string quartet performed in the St. Paul’s Cathedral Chamber Music Series, New York. An avid performer of new music, Ms. Lin is a founding member of Argento Chamber Ensemble, a contemporary music group that presented "Loops and Resonances," a program in the "Sounds French" Festival held in New York in March 2003. The ensemble has also been involved with the American Festival of Microtonal Music for the past two years. At the request of Columbia University, the ensemble recorded Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire for an interdisciplinary website. Argento was also invited to Turkey to perform in the Istanbul International Spectral Music Conference in November 2003, where they also recorded music by Tristan Murail for release on the Aeon label. In addition, Ms. Lin has appeared as a guest artist on various prestigious new music series, including the ISCM (International Society for Contemporary Music) concerts and the Look and Listen Festival. She has worked closely with important living composers, including Tristan Murail and Mario Davidovsky, whose string trio she recently performed at Temple University and at Symphony Space in New York City. She is also a regular cellist for Long Island Composers Alliance concerts held in the New York metro area. Throughout her career, Ms. Lin has been deeply interested in arts education. While a student at Juilliard, she was a visiting TA in various public schools in the Manhattan area, introducing different aspects of music to classrooms ranging from third to eighth grade. She has performed for school assemblies with the Antara Ensemble, and she worked with the Chester Boys Chorus for three summers, teaching basic theory and piano to children ages seven through fourteen, as well as tutoring them in reading and writing. Additionally, in college, she co-hosted a classical music radio show, introducing unusual music programs to the listening audience at large. Ms. Lin received her master's degree from The Juilliard School in 2000, as a student of Fred Sherry. While studying at Swarthmore College, where she earned her BA in Environmental Systems Modeling, she studied the cello with Peter Stumpf in Philadelphia. |
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