Kelly Lin, Piano

Musician

Dr. Kelly Yu-Chieh Lin is a Taiwanese pianist, who began her musical studies at an early age on the piano, violin, viola, and er-hu. Soon after, she was winning national competitions and awards on all four instruments in her native Taiwan.

Dr. Lin has regular appearances at the Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. In 2014, Dr. Lin was invited to perform with the Trinity Church Concert on Wall Street for their Festival Concert Series. She was one of the judges for the Steinway Society Competition in 2014. For the past few years till the present, Dr. Lin is the piano faculty and accompanist for the Berkshire Summer Music, the Meadowmount School of Music, the Westminster Piano High School Camp, 4string Music Festival, the QM International Music Center, and Sphinx Summer Education Program. 

From 2015 to 2016, she was the staff accompanist at Rutgers University. Currently, a collaborative pianist at Juilliard school, Mannes the new school, Manhattan School of Music, Columbia University, and Young Concert Artist. In addition, Dr. Lin is the accompanist for Eric Whitacre in the New York region at the Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. She also accompanied Hudson Valley International Competition, Rondo Competition, international Virtuoso competition, and Camerata Artists international competition. In 2019, Dr. Lin was invited to accompany the 16th International Tchaikovsky Competition in Russia and performed at the 2019 International Trombone Festival. During Pandemic 2021, she was invited to perform a special music series called Musical Storefront Series. In September 2021, she was invited by the Violin Channel Vanguard Concert Series to perform with Xavier Foley. 

Dr. Lin received full scholarships while getting her BM, MM, and AD at the University of Southern California as a piano performance major, studying with John Perry. Later received her Doctorate of Musical Arts in piano performance at Rutgers University with Daniel Epstein in 2015, where she received a full scholarship with a teaching assistantship while balancing a busy schedule as a piano teacher, an accompanist, a chamber musician.