Biography

Hailed as one of the 100 Passionate People (Taiwanese American Project), Ming-Hui Lin is a versatile cellist and pianist, an enthusiastic chamber musician, and a devoted teacher and coach. Featured on the Sound of Hope Radio Station and NYC Chinese American Voice, Ms. Lin’s performances have brought her to major cities throughout the United States, Europe and Asia; venues including Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Jordon Hall, Royce Hall at UCLA, Boston Symphony Orchestra Hall, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Hall, Salzburg Mozarteum, and National Concert Hall in Taiwan. Ms. Lin's interviews were featured on T-Classical Music Network/T-CTV in Taiwan and Boston University Admission Booklet as the doctoral program representative (2008&09). She has also been appeared in Taiwan Woman Winter Retreat in New York (North America Chapter) held by Taiwanese Woman Organization, and was invited to give lectures through ROCSA Connect at MIT and Taiwanese Studies Group at UIUC.

As a founding member and cellist of the New England String Quartet, Ms. Lin performs extensively in Boston and the New England area, and provides chamber music coaching at Harvard University's Dudley House where the Quartet is recently appointed Ensemble-In-Residence. Supported by The Foundation for the Advancement of String Education, the quartet’s past educational activities include hands-on chamber music work and performances together with music students. NESQ has made numerous debut recordings of contemporary works on the PARMA label, including works by Alan Beeler, Michael Cunningham, Sarah Wallin-Huff, Larry Read, Kyle Peter Rotolo, Chistopher Dietz and more.

Ms. Lin also performs with Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Symphony Nova, and Claflin Hill Symphony Orchestra, and collaborates with a wide array of ensembles and musicians, such as distinguished musicians Samuel Rhodes and Hiroko Yajima; orchestral members of the Silk Road Project; two-time Oscar nominee and a Grammy winner Alan Silvestri; and D.J. Premiere, Hip-Hop's greatest producer of all times according to Rolling Stone.

A native of Taiwan, Ms. Lin completed her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Boston University (2013), and received degrees from Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University (GPD, 07; MM, 05) and the Taipei National University of the Arts (BM, 03). She is a former faculty for the non-major cello lessons at Boston University, and has joined the faculty of the Preparatory School at the New England Conservatory. She has also been the sectional coach for the BU All Campus Orchestra and the Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra. Ms. Lin has served as a chamber coach in The Young People's String Orchestra (YPSO) under the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra since 2010, and in the Burnside Music Festival (2011 & 12). Ms. Lin is also an instructor of the cello performance class at the Brookline Adult& Community program through the Brookline High School. Her major teachers include Leslie Parnas, Amit Peled, Chu-Chuan Liu, and Victor Shipiller. She has performed in solo master classes for Yo-Yo Ma, Richard Aaron, Natasha Brofsky, Yvan Chiffoleau, Steven Pologe, M. Shepps, Alan Stapansky and has been coached by the Tokyo Quartet, Peabody Trio, Muir String Quartet, and the Audubon Quartet.