Violinist Ching-Yi Lin’s recent performances and masterclasses have taken her to the
Barratt Due Institute of Music in Norway, the Shenyang and Xi’an Conservatories in
China, Northwestern University, Vanderbilt University, and the University of British
Columbia. She’s also performed in New York on the Museum of Modern Art’s Summer Garden
Series, at Sejong Center in South Korea, and in Taiwan at the National Concert Hall
in Taipei.
Her recent album on MSR Classics features sonatas for violin and piano by Charles
Ives, William Bolcom, and John Corigliano. In reviewing the album, Gramophone noted
the “panache and warmth” of Ms. Lin’s playing and described her interpretations as
“a series of tender, lively, and challenging conversations.”
A dedicated and creative teacher, Ching-Yi Lin is Associate Professor at Western Kentucky
University and also serves on the faculty at the Indiana University Summer String
Academy and the WKU Summer String Institute. Previously, she served on the faculty
of the Sommersymfoni i Kristiansand in Norway and Chicago Chamber Music Festival.
In 2013, Ching-Yi was presented with the prestigious Jefferson Award for Public Service
in Washington, DC, recognizing her work in bringing music into the lives of young
people throughout her community. And in 2017, Ching-Yi received a Sisterhood grant
from Western Kentucky University to direct student teachers and volunteers in teaching
the violin to refugee children in Bowling Green, KY. In 2020, this program developed
into a non-profit organization called Bridging Cultures with Music. The program offers
college music majors an opportunity to teach, inspire, and make an impact in a global
classroom setting.
Ching-Yi regularly presents at the American String Teachers Association National Conference
and is an active clinician and adjudicator. As a board member for the Daraja Music
Initiative, a non-profit organization in Moshi, Tanzania, Dr. Lin founded a beginning
strings program for students of the Majengo Primary School in 2016. Over 60 string
instruments were donated from across the United States for this endeavor. She also
currently serves as the Secretary and on the Board of Directors of the Suzuki Association
of the Americas.
Dr. Lin holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from the Indiana University
Jacobs School of Music, and she undertook additional studies at the Vienna Conservatory.
She plays on a violin made in 1863 by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume.
www.chingyilin.com
Andrew Braddock
Violist Andrew Braddock’s teaching and performing career has recently taken him to
the Sejong Center in Seoul, South Korea, the National Concert Hall in Taipei, Taiwan,
and the International Viola Congress in Rotterdam.
A passionate educator, he has given masterclasses at Vanderbilt University, the Chinese
Culture University in Taipei, Taiwan, Bowling Green State University, and many others.
He teaches at Western Kentucky University (WKU) and is the co-director of the WKU
String Academy. In the summers, he teaches at the Indiana University Summer String
Academy and directs the WKU Summer String Institute, an intensive summer camp for
students ages 4 to 18 based around chamber music and orchestral performance. His creative
teaching led him to co-found Bridging Cultures with Music, a 501(c)(3) organization
that supports various pedagogical and outreach programs in his community and abroad.
Research, writing, and intellectual discovery are central to his artistic mission.
His writings have appeared in publications such as The Strad and the Journal of the British Music Society. He is currently the editor of the American Suzuki Journal, a quarterly publication of the Suzuki Association of the Americas. From 2017 to 2021,
Dr. Braddock was the editor of the Journal of the American Viola Society, the most prominent peer-reviewed publication for viola scholarship. The journal
presents musicological and music theory research relating to the viola, in addition
to pedagogical insights and current reviews. Dr. Braddock spearheaded an issue devoted
to the 40th anniversary of George Rochberg’s viola sonata, examining it from various
musicological, historical, and theoretical perspectives. He previously served as the
journal’s New Music Editor and on the board of the American Viola Society.
He is the principal violist of the Paducah Symphony Orchestra, and he regularly plays
with the Nashville Symphony and the Nashville Opera. He holds degrees from Indiana
University, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Kentucky. His principal teachers
are Atar Arad, Kathryn Plummer, and John Graham. He plays a viola made by Giovanni
Pistucci, ca. 1920.
Visit his personal website for his recordings, research, and arrangements for viola:
andybraddock.com
